iguana

«iguana» in Mova's school dictionary: a large lizard with a row of spines down its back, found… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an iguana, iguanas)

meaning for a pupil

1) An iguana is a large lizard with a row of spines down its back, found in hot parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean. tree →

2) The marine iguana of the Galapagos Islands is the only lizard that swims and feeds in the sea. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons iguanas are examples of reptiles: cold-blooded, scaly, laying eggs, and needing the sun to warm up. Green iguanas are mostly plant eaters. Charles Darwin saw marine iguanas in the Galapagos. Some people keep iguanas as pets. Phrases: «green iguana», «marine iguana».

examples

• An iguana lay on the warm rock in the sun. tree →
• Iguanas are reptiles, so they are cold-blooded. tree →
• The green iguana eats leaves, flowers and fruit. tree →
• Marine iguanas dive into the sea to eat seaweed. tree →
• My cousin keeps an iguana in a big glass tank. tree →
• The iguana's long tail can whip at an enemy. tree →

note

Countable; use «an» (an iguana). Stress: ig-WAH-nuh. Iguanas are lizards, not dinosaurs, although they look a little like small dinosaurs.

In the corpora

• Sally Lightfoot crabs are bright red crabs that leap from rock to rock, eat algae and pick ticks off marine iguanas.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «iguana» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.