fanfoot

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A name of the gecko-lizards, from their spreading toes. A common species to which the term is applied is the North African Ptyodactylus gecko, a perfectly harmless animal, so much dreaded for its reputed venomous properties that it is called at Cairo abou-burs, father of leprosy. As in other geckos, the spreading toes end in a disk or sucker which enables the animal to adhere to perpendicular surfaces; the claws are retractile, and a fluid, the supposed poison, exudes from the toes, whence the name Ptyodactylus, or spit-toe. See cut under gecko.
2. n. In entomology, a collectors' name of a moth of the genus Polypogon.

Wiktionary

1. n. A gecko of a species having the toes expanded into large lobes for adhesion.
2. n. Any moth of the genus Polypogon.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. 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.
2. n. Any moth of the genus Polypogon.