geckotian

plural geckotians

1. obsoletebiologyA gecko.

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

   1831, Georges Cuvier, The animal kingdom arranged in conformity with its organization, page 140

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   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.

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

   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.

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