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n. Any of various usually small tropical and subtropical lizards of the family Gekkonidae, having toes padded with setae containing numerous suction cups that enable them to climb on vertical surfaces.

n. 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 surfaces.

n. 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.

n. A lizard of the genus Gecco or family Gecconidæ; a wall-lizard. Also gecco, gekko. See Gecconidæ.

n. [capitalized] [NL.] Same as Gecco.

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

"The whole gecko is evolved to move in exactly the right way to use these forces to run up walls at high speed."

xantus gecko    croaking gecko    st. lucas gecko    flying gecko   

geckoes    wall gecko    fanfoot   

Echo    Eco    Greco    deco    echo    eco    gekko    grecco    greco    hecco   

knob-scaled    rubber-soled    curly-toed    rousette    easy-to-follow    ichneumon    bunny-rabbit    polypus    yellow-spotted    chameleon