flying gecko

flying gecko

n.

Any of various small lizards of the genus Ptychozoon of southeast Asia, having extensions of skin along each side of the body that enable it to glide short distances.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

flying gecko - a gecko that has membranous expansions along the sides of its body and limbs and tail that enable it to glide short distances fringed gecko, Ptychozoon homalocephalum gecko - any of various small chiefly tropical and usually nocturnal insectivorous terrestrial lizards typically with immovable eyelids; completely harmless genus Ptychozoon, Ptychozoon - flying geckos