Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A name of the gecko-lizards, from their spreading toes.
  • noun In entomology, a collectors' name of a moth of the genus Polypogon.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A species of gecko having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion. The Egyptian fanfoot (Phyodactylus gecko) is believed, by the natives, to have venomous toes.
  • noun Any moth of the genus Polypogon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A gecko of a species having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion.
  • noun Any moth of the genus Polypogon.

Etymologies

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fan +‎ foot

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