Gecko vs. Lizard

Geckonoun

Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.

Geckoverb

(rare) To move in the manner of a gecko; to attach to a vertical or upside-down surface.

Geckonoun

Any lizard of the family Geckonidæ. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnished with adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings. They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found in Europe and the United States. See Wall gecko, Fanfoot.

Geckonoun

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

Gecko

Geckos are small lizards belonging to the infraorder Gekkota, found in warm climates throughout the world. They range from 1.6 to 60 cm (0.64 to 24 inches).

Lizardnoun

Any reptile of the order Squamata that is not a snake, usually having four legs, external ear openings, movable eyelids and a long slender body and tail.

Lizardnoun

Lizard skin, the skin of these reptiles.

Lizardnoun

(colloquial) An unctuous person.

Lizardnoun

(colloquial) A coward.

Lizardnoun

(rock paper scissors) A hand forming a "D" shape with the tips of the thumb and index finger touching (a handshape resembling a lizard), that beats paper and Spock and loses to rock and scissors in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.

Lizardnoun

(in compounds) A person who idly spends time in a specified place, especially a promiscuous female.

Lizardnoun

Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria.

Lizardnoun

A piece of rope with thimble or block spliced into one or both of the ends.

Lizardnoun

A piece of timber with a forked end, used in dragging a heavy stone, a log, or the like, from a field.

Lizardnoun

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

Lizardnoun

a man who idles about in the lounges of hotels and bars in search of women who would support him

Lizard

Lizards are a widespread group of squamate reptiles, with over 6,000 species, ranging across all continents except Antarctica, as well as most oceanic island chains. The group is paraphyletic as it excludes the snakes and Amphisbaenia; some lizards are more closely related to these two excluded groups than they are to other lizards.