Meaning

3 senses
  1. Any lizard in the infraorder Gekkota.

  2. Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae of small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical and upside-down surfaces.

    Gecko

    гекко́нgekkón

    геко́нhekón

  3. Eggcorn of get-go.

More definitions
  • any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Geckos lay eggs.

    Геко відкладають яйця.

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  2. Are all geckos nocturnal?

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  3. Most geckos are nocturnal.

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  4. Salamanders are amphibians, whereas geckos are reptiles.

    deSalamander sind Amphibien, während Geckos Reptilien sind.

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  5. Ziri put the gecko in a jar.

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Translations

9 languages
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lizard of the family Gekkonidae:
Русский
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lizard of the family Gekkonidae:
Deutsch
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lizard of the family Gekkonidae:

Origin

The modern form was probably borrowed into English and other European languages from Dutch

The modern form was probably borrowed into English and other European languages from Dutch gekko (1718). Contemporary English forms were chacco (1711) and jackoa (1724). The further origin is not quite clear. Some sources mention a supposed Malay gekok, gekoq, or gekop, which would be imitative of the gecko’s chirping sound. Another theory derives it from Acehnese gèh-gòh (“busy”).

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Forms

plural: geckos / geckoes

Synonyms

3 synonyms

Word family

1 related words
Derivedgekkonine

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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