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Small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color
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anole
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color [syn: American chameleon , Anolis carolinensis ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any of the (taxlink Anolis genus noshow=1) genus of arboreal American lizards (such as the (vern American chameleon pedia=1)) from the iguana family which feature a brightly colored dewlap and color-changing ability.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
anole \anole\ n. 1. A small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizard ( Anolis carolinensis ) with the ability to change skin color. Syn: American chameleon, Anolis carolinensis [WordNet 1.5] ||
Usage examples of anole.
There are thirty-six known varieties of anole in this part of Central America.
After midnight, when the heat was almost bearable and anole lizards ran fearlessly across quarry tile floors, these women never wept but did their laundry instead.
She disturbed an emerald anole sunning itself on the flagstones, and it skittered away to blink at her from beneath a branch.
In the life-globe, an anole had climbed the highest branch, lording it over the others.
Carbonell did not notice he was under attack until a vanguard of anoles swarmed onto his leg.
His globe, imported at great cost from Earth itself, involved anoles, quick, flitting creatures that fed and mated, birthed and died and fed the plants that fed the creatures that fed them.