Definition of Anolis

1. Noun. New World chameleons.

Exact synonyms: Genus Anolis
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Iguania, Family Iguanidae, Iguania, Iguanidae
Member holonyms: American Chameleon, Anole, Anolis Carolinensis

Definition of Anolis

1. n. A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanidæ. They take the place in the New World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons.

Medical Definition of Anolis

1. A genus of lizards which belong to the family Iguanidae. They take the place in the new World of the chameleons in the Old, and in America are often called chameleons. Origin: In the Antilles, anoli, anoalli, a lizard. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Anolis

anoiled
anoiling
anoils
anoint
anointed
anointeds
anointer
anointers
anointing
anointing of the sick
anointment
anointments
anoints
anole
anoles
anolis (current term)
anolyte
anolytes
anomal
anomalad
anomalies
anomaliped
anomalipede
anomalism
anomalisms
anomalist
anomalistic
anomalistic month
anomalistic year
anomalistical

Literary usage of Anolis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1869)
"183) to prove, as he fancies, that I had taken a different species for the true anolis auratus, Daudin, and that I had described the latter as a new species ..."

2. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"anolis is a New World genus, ... THE AMERICAN CHAMELEON; ALLIGATOR LIZARD; FENCE LIZARD; "GREEN" LIZARD anolis carolinensis, (Cuvier) A superficial glance ..."

3. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"Toes dilated; back simple, or with a slight crest formed of two series of small scales ; rostral erect ; nose rounded. A. Leachii, the Large-Cheeked anolis ..."

4. I. A Further Study of Variation in the Gopher-snakes of Western North by John Van Denburgh (1920)
"The histological structure of the skin of anolis has, as far as I have been able to determine, been studied only by Carlton, who attempted to correlate the ..."

5. The Western World: Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in by William Henry Giles Kingston (1884)
"THE anolis. Among the true lizards is a pretty little creature known as the green Carolina anolis. It is especially daring ; not only refusing to ..."

6. Key to the North American Species of the Dipterous Genus Medeterus: With by Millard C. Van Duzee (1919)
"E. VON GELDERN I The production of the throat-fan in the Florida Chameleon (anolis carolinensis), is, aside from the remarkable cutaneous color changes, ..."

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