GECKO (geckoes)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected form: geckoes   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does gecko mean? 

• GECKO (noun)
  The noun GECKO has 1 sense:

1. any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless

  Familiarity information: GECKO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GECKO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("gecko" is a kind of...):

lizard (relatively long-bodied reptile with usually two pairs of legs and a tapering tail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gecko"):

flying gecko; fringed gecko; Ptychozoon homalocephalum (a gecko that has membranous expansions along the sides of its body and limbs and tail that enable it to glide short distances)

banded gecko (any of several geckos with dark bands across the body and differing from typical geckos in having movable eyelids; of United States southwest and Florida Gulf Coast)