IGUANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iguana mean? 

• IGUANA (noun)
  The noun IGUANA has 1 sense:

1. large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America

  Familiarity information: IGUANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IGUANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

common iguana; iguana; Iguana iguana

Hypernyms ("iguana" is a kind of...):

iguanid; iguanid lizard (lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males)

Holonyms ("iguana" is a member of...):

genus Iguana (type genus of the Iguanidae)

 Context examples 

Turtles, snakes and iguanas can transmit Salmonella bacteria to their owners.

(Animal Diseases and Your Health, NIH)

But University of Utah biologist Colleen Farmer and colleagues discovered that alligators and iguanas also have a unidirectional air flow pattern.

(Following the lizard lung labyrinth, National Science Foundation)