Dasia
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- DasiaDasia (genus)Dasia, commonly known as tree skinks or Dasias, is a genus of skinks found in Asia.-Classification:Genus Dasia*Dasia griffini - Griffin's Dasia*Dasia grisea - Grey Dasia*Dasia haliana - Ceylonese Dasia...
is a genus of skinkSkinkSkinks are lizards belonging to the family Scincidae. Together with several other lizard families, including Lacertidae , they comprise the superfamily or infraorder Scincomorpha...
. - Dasia also refers to dasia pneumata, plural of dasy pneuma or Spiritus asperSpiritus asperIn the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, the rough breathing , is a diacritical mark used to indicate the presence of an sound before a vowel, diphthong, or rho. It remained in the polytonic orthography even after the Hellenistic period, when the sound disappeared from the Greek language...
, a diacritic mark used in the Polytonic Greek and Early Cyrillic alphabets.