IGUANA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

common iguana; iguana; Iguana iguana

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Nouns denoting animals

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)

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