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say it: ahy-GWAH-nuh
iguana is a noun meaning "large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America". It carries one recorded sense.
large herbivorous tropical American arboreal lizards with a spiny crest along the back; used as human food in Central America and South America
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for iguana come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.