[Latin form of next.] = next. Now only Zool. as generic name.
1388. Wyclif, Lev. xi. 30. Mygal, camelion, and stellio.
1535. Coverdale, Lev. xi. 30. These shalbe vncleane … the Hedgehogge, the Stellio, the Lacerte, [etc.].
1601. Chester, Love’s Mart., etc. (1878), 112. The Stellio is a beast that … liueth by the deaw thats heauenly.
1658. Rowland, trans. Moufet’s Theat. Ins., 1052. A Scorpion … doth not hurt a Stellio, an Ascalabotes, a Crab, a Hawk.
1834. H. M’Murtrie, Cuvier’s Anim. Kingd., 175. The Agamæ bear a great resemblance to the common Stellios.
1863. Wood, Illustr. Nat. Hist., III. 88. The Stellio … is a well-known Lizard inhabiting Northern Africa, Syria and Greece.
