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Webster 1913 Edition

Anolis

‖

A-no′lis

,

p

rop.

Noun.

[In the Antilles,

anoli

,

anoalli

, a lizard.]

(Zool.)

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

.