stellion

From Latin stellio (“a newt with starlike spots on its back”), from stella (“star”).

stellion (plural stellions)

1. A lizard (Laudakia stellio or Stellagama stellio). It is olive-green with small stellate spots, commonly found in the rocky areas around the Mediterranean.

   Synonyms: starred agama, roughtail rock agama, hardim, hardun, star lizard

• “stellion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Elliston, Tonellis