Gekkonidae

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A group of small to medium lizards called geckos that live in warm places around the world

noun
/ˌɡɛkəˈnaɪdi/

Specialized

: Gekkonidae

The Gekkonidae family includes more than a thousand species of geckos.

Examples

Members of the Gekkonidae are known for their adhesive toe pads.
The Gekkonidae family includes many species of geckos.
Herpetologists study the Gekkonidae to understand their unique climbing abilities.
Look at that Gekkonidae!
Herpetologists study the Gekkonidae to understand their unique climbing abilities.
Members of the Gekkonidae family are known for their adhesive toe pads.
The Gekkonidae family includes more than a thousand species of geckos.

Synonyms

family Gekkonidae

vsGekkonidae

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Small to medium lizards known as geckos that live in warm places worldwide

is the same scientific family term without highlighting group size

Compounds

family Gekkonidae

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Small to medium lizards known as geckos that live in warm places worldwide

Surface Forms

Gekkonidae singular

Gekkonidaes plural

Gekkonidae plural

Morphology

Gekkonidae = gecko + idae (opaque) = Gekko + idae

The suffix '-idae' is a specialized taxonomic ending meaning 'family' used in biological nomenclature, which is not productive or obvious to general English learners, so knowing 'gecko' alone does not let a learner reliably infer the meaning.

Etymology

Gekkonidae comes from the common word gecko and the family ending -idae, which means 'family' or 'group'. The name gecko originally came from Malay or Javanese and copies the small sound these lizards make, so Gekkonidae simply means the family of geckos.