Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
Geccoides , etc.
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Examples
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From this firft difference in the organs of motion, refults, that the geckoides are incapable of climbing, and paflJing a portion of their lives on trees like the major part of the geckos, with foliated toes.
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I tound here likewife that curious long-tailed gecko (gecko platurus,) defcribed by Shaw, but which to me, by its form and habitudes, feemed fo materially to differ from the generality of the gecko tribe, that I have ranked it as a new genus under the name of geckoides, which on account of its affinity, in the claffification of modern naturalifts, fliould immediately follow the gecko.
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