common iguana

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

   SynonymsiguanaIguana iguana

   Broaderiguanid

   Part ofgenus Iguana

Questions about common iguana

What does common iguana mean?

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

What is another word for common iguana?

Close synonyms include iguana, Iguana iguana. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is common iguana a common word?

common iguana is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.