iguana

From Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɪ.ɡjuˈɑːnə/, /ɪˈɡwɑːnə/

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• (US) enPR: ĭ-gwäʹ-nə, IPA^(key): /ɪˈɡwɑnə/, /əˈɡwɑnə/
• Rhymes: -ɑːnə

iguana (plural iguanas)

1. A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.
2. (zoology) Any member of the genus Iguana.
3. Colloquially, in America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae.
4. Colloquially, in Africa, any large member of the genus Varanus, especially the aquatic Nile monitor (see leguan).
5. (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.

• “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

• Guiana, Inagua

iguana f (plural iguanas)

1. iguana

• “iguana”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

• IPA^(key): /iˈɡwa.na/
• Rhymes: -ana
• Hyphenation: i‧guà‧na

iguana f (plural iguane)

1. iguana

• Guiana, agunai, guaina

iguana

1. Rōmaji transcription of イグアナ

Reciprocal form of kũigua (“to hear”);[1] literally, “to hear each other”.

• IPA^(key): /iɣuana/

iguana (infinitive kũiguana)

1. to agree[1]
2. to be reconciled[1]
3. to be in one mind[1]
4. to be friendly[1]

   Nĩ mũiguanĩte ta gĩkwa na mũkũngũgũ.

   You (plural) agree like David and Jonathan.[2]

(Nouns)

• ũiguano class 14

Borrowed from Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.

• IPA^(key): /i.ɡuˈa.na/

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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: i‧gu‧a‧na

iguana f

1. iguana

   Synonym: legwan

• iguana in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• iguana in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• iguano

Borrowed from Spanish iguana.

• Rhymes: -ɐnɐ
• Hyphenation: i‧gua‧na

iguana f or (rare) m (plural iguanas)

1. iguana

• 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.

Borrowed from Taíno *iwana.

• IPA^(key): /iˈɡwana/ [iˈɣ̞wa.na]
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• Rhymes: -ana
• Syllabification: i‧gua‧na

iguana f (plural iguanas)

1. iguana

• “iguana”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

• IPA^(key): [iɡʋˈɑnɑ]
• Hyphenation: i‧gu‧a‧na

iguana (definite accusative iguanayı, plural iguanalar)

1. iguana