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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various small, chiefly tropical lizards of the genus Anolis and related genera, native to the Americas and characterized by a distensible dewlap and the ability to change color.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as anoli.

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

  • noun A small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizard (Anolis carolinensis) with the ability to change skin color.

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

  • noun 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.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French anolis, of Cariban origin.]

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From a Cariban term.

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