Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various chiefly tropical New World lizards of the genus Anolis, characterized by a distensible throat flap and the ability to change color. Also called chameleon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as anoli.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of the Anolis genus of arboreal American lizards (such as the American chameleon) from the iguana family which feature a brightly colored dewlap and color-changing ability.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizard (Anolis carolinensis) with the ability to change skin color.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color
Etymologies
- French anolis, of Cariban origin. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.”
“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
“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
“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.”
“Interestingly, one of the sequences (uc467) is found in the reptile, Carolina anole.”
“Characteristic lizards are the Caroline anole and the brown red-tailed skink.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I was buoyed as the anole looked me in the eye, offering his lightness and encouragement.”
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