gecko
/ˈɡɛkəʊ
/noun (plural geckos or geckoes)
A nocturnal and often highly vocal lizard which has adhesive pads on the feet to assist in climbing on smooth surfaces. It is widespread in warm regions.
- Gekkonidae and related families: numerous genera and species.
- While living here I have spotted many, including small shiny skinned skinks, geckos (jing-jocks and tokays), and large monitor lizards.
- A wide variety of birds, lizards and marsupials are depicted, including kangaroos, wallabies, goannas, leaf-tail geckoes and many other animals from the region.
Origin
Late 18th century: from Malay dialect geko, gekok, imitative of its cry.
Rhymes
- randomness
- random noise
- random number
- random number generator
- random play
- random process
- random sample
- random sampling
- random selection
- random shot
- random variable
- random variate
- random walk
- random-wise
- randonnée
- randori
- Randstad
- randy
- randy-dog
- rane
- ranee
- Raney catalyst
- Raney nickel
- Ranfurly Shield
- rang