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iguana
/ɪˈɡwɑnə/
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What does iguana mean?
noun
- A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.
- Any member of the genus Iguana.
- In America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae.
More meanings (2)
noun
- In Africa, any large member of the genus Varanus, especially the aquatic Nile monitor (see leguan).
- Any member of the genus Varanus (see goanna).
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In some species, however, the crest is equally developed in both sexes, as in the Iguana tuberculata.
These, however, together with a pretty large lizard, called the ivana or iguana, constituted the principal part of the animal food which the land afforded.
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Then they never try to catch an emu or kangaroo, only iguana, opossum, piggiebillah, paddy melon, or bandicoot, all of which could be brought home alive.
We made acquaintance here with many strange dishes, amongst them Iguana eggs; these are of oblong form, about an inch in length, and covered with a flexible shell.
The Tanagra in the house of an art-connoisseur I take to be genuine without further examination; the golden watch in the pocket of a tramp to be stolen; a giant meteor, the skeleton of an iguana, a twisted-looking Nerva in the Royal Museum of Berlin, I take to be indubitably original, and indubitably imitations in the college museum of a small town.