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▪ I. guana|ˈgwɑːnə|
Forms: 7 guiana, 7–9 guano, 8 gauna, gwana; also (anglicized) 7 gwane, gwayn, 8 guane.
[variant of iguana.]
1. The iguana, a large arboreal lizard of the West Indies and South America.
1607G. Percy in Purchas Pilgrims (1625) iv. 1686 We also killed Guanas, in fashion of a Serpent, & speckled like a Toade vnder the belly. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia iii. i. 42 With a lothsome beast like a Crocodil, called a Gwayn..we daily feasted. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. xi. 267 The animals we met with on shore [at Chequetan] were principally guanos, with which the country abounds, and which are by some reckoned delicious food. 1763W. Robinson in W. Roberts Nat. Hist. Florida 100 [List of animals] The guane. 1792M. Riddell Voy. Madeira 63 The guana is of various colours; but most commonly it is either brown, green, or blue. 1834M. Scott Cruise Midge (1859) 287 Look at these two guanas chasing each other up that tree.
2. Austral., Anglo-Indian, etc. Any large lizard, e.g. Sphenodon punctatum (Hatteria punctata) of New Zealand. Cf. goanna.
1802G. Barrington Hist. N. S. Wales viii. 285 Among other reptiles were found some brown guanoes. 1864J. Rogers New Rush i. 6 The shy Guana climbs a tree in fear. 1883‘Eha’ Tribes on my Frontier 36 The large Monitor which Europeans in India generally call an iguana, sometimes a guano!
▪ II. guana
variant of guano. |