iguanan.

Brit.

/ˌɪɡjʊˈɑːnə/,

/ɪˈɡwɑːnə/, U.S.

/əˈɡwɑnə/,

/iˈɡwɑnə/

Forms: 1500s iuanna, iwana, 1500s, 1800s iguano, 1600s yguana, guana, wana, gwane, gwayn, 1600s– iguana.

Etymology: < Spanish iguana, representing the Carib name iwana (variously given by early writers as hiuana, igoana, iuanna, yuana).

1. A large arboreal lizard of the West Indies and South America, Iguana tuberculata, which attains to a length of five feet or more; also, in Zoology, the name of the genus, which includes the horned iguana of San Domingo, and other species; and loosely applied to other lizards of allied genera.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Iguanidae > member of (iguana)

iguana1555

guana1589

leguan1704

goanna1769

iguanian1838

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. vii. f. 126 Foure footed beastes..named Iuannas, muche lyke vnto Crocodiles, of eyght foote length, of moste pleasaunte taste.

1596 L. Keymis Relation 2nd Voy. Guiana sig. B4 Store of fish, foule, Deere, and Iwanas.

1600 F. Pretty in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 815 Iguanos which are a kinde of Serpents, with foure feete, and a long sharpe tayle.

1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxxviii. 313 The flesh of the Yguanas is a better meate.

1607 G. Percy in Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) iv. 1686 We also killed Guanas, in fashion of a Serpent, & speckled like a Toade vnder the belly.

1617 W. Raleigh Apol. 37 [South America] hath plenty of..Tortoyses, Armadiles, Wanaes.

1630 J. Smith True Trav. 54 Gwanes they have, which is a little harmlesse beast, like a Crokadell or Aligator, very fat and good meat.

1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xix. 143 Another kind of meat they feed much on which is called Iguana.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. 147 That species which is here called the iguana, and by the Indians the wayamaca, is seldom above 3 feet long.

1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. Introd. 15 Iguanas, and other lizards, are found in all places.

1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. ii. 122 The hideous but harmless iguano..moves slowly across the high-road.

1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life ii. 27 The peculiarly American family of the iguanas is represented by two genera in Madagascar.

2. A name used in Africa for a large monitor lizard of the genus Varanus, esp. V. niloticus, the aquatic Nile monitor.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Varanidae or genus Varanus > varanus niloticus (Nile monitor)

iguana1753

water monitor1811

Nilotic monitor1840

Nile monitor1900

1753 N. Owen Jrnl. Slave-dealer (1930) 32 They [sc. the Bulums] eat alegators, guanas and long worms.

1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. v. 346 None of the people with me could testify to have seen any other species of that genus [sc. crocodile] frequenting the water, except Iguanas, from six to ten feet in length.

1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. iv. 69 Although they have several species of lizards, they use only one as an article of diet, the guana, lacerta iguana, which they esteem delicate food.

1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches ii. vi. 210 One of the deep lagoons formed by the river, and which the [Moravian] brethren have named the Leguan's Tank, from its being frequented by numbers of the large amphibious lizard called the leguan or guana.

1875 J. J. Bisset Sport & War xx. 179 Hence [sc. from under water] the ‘Iguana’, a small kind of crocodile, proceed on shore at night and take chickens from the hen-roosts.

1900 H. A. Bryden Animals Afr. xv. 174 In South Africa this reptile [sc. the Nile Monitor] is often miscalled an ‘iguana’.

1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxv. 315 There are two large monitor lizards or leguaans of the genus Varanus found in South Africa. These are sometimes called ‘iguanas’, though the true iguanas are almost all confined to the New World, and the popular term may be merely a corruption of this name.

1964 J. P. Clark Three Plays 30 They struggled like Two iguanas till outspent, they stopped.

Derivatives

iˈguanian adj. and n. (a) adj. resembling an iguana, belonging to the iguana family, Iguanidæ; (b) n. one of this family.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [adjective] > resembling iguana or belonging to Iguanidae

iguanian1838

iguanoid1855

the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Iguanidae > member of (iguana)

iguana1555

guana1589

leguan1704

goanna1769

iguanian1838

1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 441/1 Only one Iguanian belongs to Europe, the common Stellio.

1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 200 In the iguanians..this synchondrosis is obliterated.

1864 R. Owen Lect. Power of God 46 The Iguanian lizards [are] peculiar to the Western or American hemisphere.

iˈguanid adj. having the form or structure of an iguana.

iˈguaniform adj. = iguanid adj.

iˈguanoid adj. and n. = iguanian adj. and n.

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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [adjective] > resembling iguana or belonging to Iguanidae

iguanian1838

iguanoid1855

1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Iguanoides,..iguanoid.

1878 19th Cent. Dec. 1048 Madagascar possesses iguanoid lizards (Hoplurus and Chalarodon).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	iguana
释义	iguanan. Brit. /ˌɪɡjʊˈɑːnə/, /ɪˈɡwɑːnə/, U.S. /əˈɡwɑnə/, /iˈɡwɑnə/ Forms: 1500s iuanna, iwana, 1500s, 1800s iguano, 1600s yguana, guana, wana, gwane, gwayn, 1600s– iguana. Etymology: < Spanish iguana, representing the Carib name iwana (variously given by early writers as hiuana, igoana, iuanna, yuana). 1. A large arboreal lizard of the West Indies and South America, Iguana tuberculata, which attains to a length of five feet or more; also, in Zoology, the name of the genus, which includes the horned iguana of San Domingo, and other species; and loosely applied to other lizards of allied genera. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Iguanidae > member of (iguana) iguana1555 guana1589 leguan1704 goanna1769 iguanian1838 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. vii. f. 126 Foure footed beastes..named Iuannas, muche lyke vnto Crocodiles, of eyght foote length, of moste pleasaunte taste. 1596 L. Keymis Relation 2nd Voy. Guiana sig. B4 Store of fish, foule, Deere, and Iwanas. 1600 F. Pretty in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 815 Iguanos which are a kinde of Serpents, with foure feete, and a long sharpe tayle. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxxviii. 313 The flesh of the Yguanas is a better meate. 1607 G. Percy in Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) iv. 1686 We also killed Guanas, in fashion of a Serpent, & speckled like a Toade vnder the belly. 1617 W. Raleigh Apol. 37 [South America] hath plenty of..Tortoyses, Armadiles, Wanaes. 1630 J. Smith True Trav. 54 Gwanes they have, which is a little harmlesse beast, like a Crokadell or Aligator, very fat and good meat. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xix. 143 Another kind of meat they feed much on which is called Iguana. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. 147 That species which is here called the iguana, and by the Indians the wayamaca, is seldom above 3 feet long. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. Introd. 15 Iguanas, and other lizards, are found in all places. 1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. ii. 122 The hideous but harmless iguano..moves slowly across the high-road. 1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life ii. 27 The peculiarly American family of the iguanas is represented by two genera in Madagascar. 2. A name used in Africa for a large monitor lizard of the genus Varanus, esp. V. niloticus, the aquatic Nile monitor. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Varanidae or genus Varanus > varanus niloticus (Nile monitor) iguana1753 water monitor1811 Nilotic monitor1840 Nile monitor1900 1753 N. Owen Jrnl. Slave-dealer (1930) 32 They [sc. the Bulums] eat alegators, guanas and long worms. 1801 J. Barrow Acct. Trav. Interior S. Afr. 1797–8 I. v. 346 None of the people with me could testify to have seen any other species of that genus [sc. crocodile] frequenting the water, except Iguanas, from six to ten feet in length. 1803 T. Winterbottom Acct. Native Africans Sierra Leone I. iv. 69 Although they have several species of lizards, they use only one as an article of diet, the guana, lacerta iguana, which they esteem delicate food. 1834 T. Pringle Afr. Sketches ii. vi. 210 One of the deep lagoons formed by the river, and which the [Moravian] brethren have named the Leguan's Tank, from its being frequented by numbers of the large amphibious lizard called the leguan or guana. 1875 J. J. Bisset Sport & War xx. 179 Hence [sc. from under water] the ‘Iguana’, a small kind of crocodile, proceed on shore at night and take chickens from the hen-roosts. 1900 H. A. Bryden Animals Afr. xv. 174 In South Africa this reptile [sc. the Nile Monitor] is often miscalled an ‘iguana’. 1947 J. Stevenson-Hamilton Wild Life S. Afr. xxxv. 315 There are two large monitor lizards or leguaans of the genus Varanus found in South Africa. These are sometimes called ‘iguanas’, though the true iguanas are almost all confined to the New World, and the popular term may be merely a corruption of this name. 1964 J. P. Clark Three Plays 30 They struggled like Two iguanas till outspent, they stopped. Derivatives iˈguanian adj. and n. (a) adj. resembling an iguana, belonging to the iguana family, Iguanidæ; (b) n. one of this family. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [adjective] > resembling iguana or belonging to Iguanidae iguanian1838 iguanoid1855 the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Iguanidae > member of (iguana) iguana1555 guana1589 leguan1704 goanna1769 iguanian1838 1838 Penny Cycl. XII. 441/1 Only one Iguanian belongs to Europe, the common Stellio. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 200 In the iguanians..this synchondrosis is obliterated. 1864 R. Owen Lect. Power of God 46 The Iguanian lizards [are] peculiar to the Western or American hemisphere. iˈguanid adj. having the form or structure of an iguana. iˈguaniform adj. = iguanid adj. iˈguanoid adj. and n. = iguanian adj. and n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [adjective] > resembling iguana or belonging to Iguanidae iguanian1838 iguanoid1855 1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Iguanoides,..iguanoid. 1878 19th Cent. Dec. 1048 Madagascar possesses iguanoid lizards (Hoplurus and Chalarodon). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1555
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