Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small, chiefly tropical lizards of the genus Anolis and related genera, native to the Americas and characterized by a distensible dewlap and the ability to change color.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
anoli .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizard (
Anolis carolinensis ) with the ability to change skin color.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the Anolis
genus ofarboreal American lizards (such as the Americanchameleon ) from theiguana family which feature a brightly coloreddewlap and color-changing ability.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Yes | No | Report from BioGuy wrote 20 weeks 19 hours ago sgaredneck: Lol ... how quickly I am reminded of an episode of animal cops where a lady was terrified of an anole lizard and claimed it was an alligator.
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Yes | No | Report from BioGuy wrote 20 weeks 19 hours ago sgaredneck: Lol ... how quickly I am reminded of an episode of animal cops where a lady was terrified of an anole lizard and claimed it was an alligator.
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Anolis carolinensis, green anole, by Al Denelsbeck — Not endangered or even threatened at this point, they nevertheless are getting crowded out in Florida by the introduced and more aggressive brown anole.
Photography contest: Finalists, General Category - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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It would be interesting to see what the function of this sequence is in the Carolina anole genome and whether deletion of the sequence will have any effect on fitness.
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Interestingly, one of the sequences (uc467) is found in the reptile, Carolina anole.
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Anolis carolinensis, green anole, by Al Denelsbeck — Not endangered or even threatened at this point, they nevertheless are getting crowded out in Florida by the introduced and more aggressive brown anole.
Photography contest: Finalists, General Category - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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My digital camera is not really good for this sort of thing (it's not especially fast nor is the lens particularly adjustable) but this afternoon I managed to get an action shot of this male anole with its red dewlap extended in a territorial display.
Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2007
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Most of us here in Dallas can count at least four lizards around our homes: the anole, the fence lizard, the Mediterranean gecko, and the ground skink.
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I did not want to give you the chameleon terror solution, only to discover down the line that the anole solution was actually in order.
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Characteristic lizards are the Caroline anole and the brown red-tailed skink.
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