Noun: iguana
| Singular | iguana |
| Plural | iguanas |
Sample Sentences
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The problem with keeping the green iguana as a pet is that they are often misfed. For example, some will feed them meat or meat-based foods […] [2015, Rachel Smith, John Davidson, Lizards For Kids, page 18:]
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Marine iguanas line the shores of the islands, and are usually seen sprawled over lava rocks near the sea. [1991, Martha Holmes, Sea Trek, BBC Books, page 44:]
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The last they had had, was an iguana one of the blacks had brought in; and though he felt disgusted at the idea of eating it, he made up into a kind of stew, and they both enjoyed it immensely. [1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 161:]
Nouns inflected like iguana
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana. See: Spanish Nouns '
iguana'.
Verbs referencing "iguana"
Finnish Nouns
iguaani.