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Definition of Anolis
1. Noun. New World chameleons.
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Anolis
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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