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- noun Plural form of
gecko .
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Long after my parents were asleep, I'd lie in the tropical swelter of my room, watching the geckoes in each corner who kept mosquitoes at bay, flipping between lines of iambic pentameter to footnotes and glossary, trying to suck out all the meaning he packed into each phrase.
Archive 2010-01-01 2010
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Long after my parents were asleep, I'd lie in the tropical swelter of my room, watching the geckoes in each corner who kept mosquitoes at bay, flipping between lines of iambic pentameter to footnotes and glossary, trying to suck out all the meaning he packed into each phrase.
The Quality of Meter 2010
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Having heard of you through channels too complicated and baroque to go into, I immediately realised that we would be foes eternally and it was forthwith my only ambition to write a book about my homeland, include a scene with geckoes and the crunching thereof, and, by hideous and foul means, induce you to read it, thus softening you up for further psychological assaults.
Actual Fan Email, Actual Response. karenhealey 2010
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We're antelopes, geckoes, fireflies, among our human forms, dervishes whirling within spherical music.
She tolled me 2009
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Not the usual wall geckoes, but the Spotted Gecko that makes messes that you don't want to know about.
Archive 2009-05-01 Glenda Larke 2009
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Not the usual wall geckoes, but the Spotted Gecko that makes messes that you don't want to know about.
A day in the life of... Glenda Larke 2009
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We're antelopes, geckoes, fireflies, among our human forms, dervishes whirling within spherical music.
She tolled me 2009
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At night, you can sometimes hear the geckoes making a strange, clicking sound.
Travel in Cambodia: November 2000 Trip: Phnom Penh and Tonle Bati 2008
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The geckoes approach them, look them over, and walk away.
Travel in Cambodia: November 2000 Trip: Phnom Penh and Tonle Bati 2008
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Reptiles and amphibians recorded from the islands include 2 geckoes (Hemidactylus spp.), 2 agamid lizards including the common garden lizard or blood sucker (Calotes versicolar), the snake skink (Riopa albopunktata), common wolf snake (Lycodon aulicus), another snake, Typhlos braminus, a short-headed frog, Rana breviceps, and a larger toad, Bufo melanostictus.
Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests 2008
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