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means A small, slender American lizard, usually bright green but able to shift to brown, prized as a pet and known for the male's pink throat fan used to signal territory or attract mates.

from 'Anole' entered English through French 'anolis', borrowed from an Indigenous Caribbean (likely Arawakan) word for these lizards — so the name itself traveled from the islands where Europeans first catalogued them. 'Green' is just the plain English color tag, added to distinguish this common backyard species from its many anole cousins across the Americas.