Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gecko; any lizard of the family Gecconidæ. See
Gecconidæ , and cuts undergecko and Platydactylus . - noun A common European lizard, Lacerta muralis.
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Examples
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It is his signature: only a little wall-lizard, holding the paper in its mouth, perfect; yet so small that you can scarcely see its feet, and that I could not, with my finest-pointed brush, copy their stealthy action.
Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 John Ruskin 1859
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a close friendship with a wall-lizard who spent in my society certain of his leisure moments -- which were not many, for he always had an astonishing number of other things on hand.
Alone Norman Douglas 1910
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Eimer in his works on the variation of the wall-lizard and on the markings of birds and mammals (1881-88), his final views being comprised in his general work. [
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