iguana
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /ɪ.ɡjuˈɑːnə/, /ɪˈɡwɑːnə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) enPR: ĭ-gwäʹ-nə, IPA(key): /ɪˈɡwɑnə/, /əˈɡwɑnə/
- Rhymes: -ɑːnə
Noun
[edit]iguana (plural iguanas)
- A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.
- (zoology) Any member of the genus Iguana.
- Colloquially, in America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae.
- Colloquially, in Africa, any large member of the genus Varanus, especially the aquatic Nile monitor (see leguan).
- (Australia, formerly) Any member of the genus Varanus (see goanna).
- 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 161:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]terms derived from iguana
- American iguana (Iguana iguana)
- black iguana (Ctenosaura similis)
- black spiny-tailed iguana (Ctenosaura similis)
- blue iguana (Cyclura lewisi)
- desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis)
- eastern casquehead iguana (Laemanctus longipes)
- Fiji banded iguana (Brachylophus fasciatus)
- Fiji crested iguana (Brachylophus vitiensis)
- green iguana (Iguana iguana)
- ground iguana (Cyclura spp.)
- guana
- helmeted iguana (Corytophanes cristatus)
- iguanoid
- Jamaican iguana (Cyclura collei)
- land iguana (Conolophus spp.)
- lesser antillean iguana (Iguana delicatissima)
- marine iguana (Amblyrhynchus cristatus)
- Mona island iguana (Cyclura cornuta stejnegeri)
- pink iguana (Conolophus marthae)
- rhino iguana/rhinoceros iguana (Cyclura cornuta)
- ringed spinytail iguana
- rock iguana (Cyclura spp.)
- Tarapaca Pacific iguana (Microlophus tarapacensis)
Translations
[edit]any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae
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any member of the genus Iguana
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a green iguana (Iguana iguana)
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References
[edit]- “iguana”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “iguana”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Iguana on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Iguana on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Iguana on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
[edit]Galician
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.
Noun
[edit]iguana f (plural iguanas)
Further reading
[edit]- “iguana”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2024
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]iguana f (plural iguane)
Anagrams
[edit]Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]iguana
Kikuyu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Reciprocal form of kũigua (“to hear”);[1] literally, “to hear each other”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]iguana (infinitive kũiguana)
Related terms
[edit](Nouns)
- ũiguano class 14
References
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]iguana f
Declension
[edit]Declension of iguana
Further reading
[edit]- iguana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- iguana in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɐnɐ
- Hyphenation: i‧gua‧na
Noun
[edit]iguana f or (rare) m (plural iguanas)
Usage notes
[edit]- The gender of this Portuguese word is always feminine. When the gender of the being itself must be specified, use “iguana-macho” for male, and “iguana-fêmea” for female.
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]iguana f (plural iguanas)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “iguana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
Turkish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]iguana (definite accusative iguanayı, plural iguanalar)
Declension
[edit]Inflection | ||
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Nominative | iguana | |
Definite accusative | iguanayı | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | iguana | iguanalar |
Definite accusative | iguanayı | iguanaları |
Dative | iguanaya | iguanalara |
Locative | iguanada | iguanalarda |
Ablative | iguanadan | iguanalardan |
Genitive | iguananın | iguanaların |
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