Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having thecal digits, as a gecko; having thick toes whose scales furnish a sheath for the claw. See cut under gecko.
  • noun A thecodactyl gecko.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of a group of lizards of the Gecko tribe, having the toes broad, and furnished with a groove in which the claws can be concealed.

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  • 'just in case' (clause) claws

    November 21, 2010