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Gecko vs Skink - What's the difference?

gecko | skink |

As nouns the difference between gecko and skink

is that gecko is any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical surfaces while skink is a lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.

As a verb skink is

to serve (a drink.

gecko

English

(wikipedia gecko)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Any lizard of the family Gekkonidae. They are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and adhesive toes enabling them to climb on vertical surfaces.

    • skink

    English

    (wikipedia skink)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) scinc, from (etyl) scincus, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lizard of the Scincidae family, having small or reduced limbs or none at all and long tails that are regenerated when shed.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) scencan or (etyl) skenkja.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) to serve (a drink)
  • * Shirley
    • Such wine as Ganymede doth skink to Jove.

    Noun

  • (obsolete) drink
  • (obsolete) pottage
    • (Francis Bacon)
    Derived terms
    * Cullen skink (Webster 1913)

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