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iguanodon

iguanodon noun: any large dinosaur of the genus †Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

Noun

iguanodon (plural iguanodons)

  1. Any large dinosaur of the genus †Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
    • August the twenty-eighth - the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

Forms of iguanodon

pluraliguanodons

Origin of iguanodon

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Iguanodon, from Spanish iguana (from Taíno *iwana) + translingual -odon.

Questions about iguanodon

What does iguanodon mean?
Iguanodon means any large dinosaur of the genus †Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
What part of speech is iguanodon?
Iguanodon is a noun.
What is the plural of iguanodon?
The plural of iguanodon is iguanodons.

Words near iguanodon in the dictionary

  1. iguanid
  2. iguanids
  3. iguaniform
  4. iguanine
  5. iguanines
  6. iguanodon
  7. iguanodons
  8. iguanodont
  9. iguanodontian
  10. iguanodontians
  11. iguanodontid

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