Definition of Ptychozoon

1. Noun. Flying geckos.

Exact synonyms: Genus Ptychozoon
Generic synonyms: Reptile Genus
Group relationships: Family Gekkonidae, Gekkonidae
Member holonyms: Flying Gecko, Fringed Gecko, Ptychozoon Homalocephalum

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ptychozoon

Ptolemaic dynasty
Ptolemaic system
Ptolemaida
Ptolemais
Ptolemaist
Ptolemaists
Ptolemean
Ptolemy
Ptolemy I
Ptolemy II
Ptolemæus
Pty
Pty Ltd
Ptyas
Ptyas mucosus
Ptychozoon
Ptychozoon homalocephalum
Pu
Pub.
Pub. L.
Public Health Service
Public Health Service Commissioned Corps
Public Limited Liability Company
Publius Aelius Hadrianus
Publius Cornelius Scipio
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major
Publius Ovidius Naso
Publius Terentius Afer
Publius Vergilius Maro
Puccini

Literary usage of Ptychozoon

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

1. Description of a New Species of Sea Snake from the Philippine Islands: With by John Van Denburgh, Joseph Cheesman Thompson (1908)
"ptychozoon horsfieldii (Gray) Regarding this lizard Dr. Stejneger writes (Bull. US Nat. Mus. No. 58, p. 172), "This remarkable species is an inhabitant of ..."

2. Herpetology of Japan and Adjacent Territory by Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1907)
"Genus ptychozoon« Kühl. 2. ... mental small triangular, followed by a pair of "From HTV$, a fold; Conor, an animal. & ptychozoon kuhli is ..."

3. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1903)
"The remarkable gecko hitherto known as ptychozoon ... As a suitable new name I propose ptychozoon ... It, may be remarked that Gray's ptychozoon ..."

4. The Cambridge Natural History by Arthur Everett Shipley, Sidney Frederic Harmer (1901)
"ptychozoon.— The digits have the same structure as described in the genus ... The extraordinary feature of ptychozoon is the membranous expansions on the ..."

5. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1873)
"... claws to each foot, sides of the head, body, tail, and of the limbs with broad, wing-like expansions of the skin. Only one species is known. ptychozoon ..."

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