geckotian

geckotian

English

Noun

geckotian (plural geckotians)

1. (zoology, obsolete) A gecko.
   • 1831, Georges Cuvier, The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization‎, page 140:

     The Geckotians, is composed of nocturnal lizards, so much resembling each other that they might be left in one genus.

   • 1871, Arthur Morelet, Travels in Central America: Including Accounts of Some Regions Unexplored Since the Conquest‎, page 278:

     It proved to be nothing more that a lizard of the geckotian family, hideously ugly, but, in common with all of his kind, perfectly harmless.

   • 1890, M. Maurice Maindron, “Dragons, fabled and real”, in The Popular Science Monthly‎, volume 36:

     Other saurians have folds of skin along the flanks; but in no other of them is this disposition so developed as in a curious geckotian, the Ptychozoon homacephalum of Java and other Sunda Islands.