iguanid

Other forms of iguanid

plural

iguanids·

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.

Questions about iguanid

What does iguanid mean?

iguanid means "lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males".

How many syllables are in iguanid?

iguanid has 4 syllables and divides as i-gu-a-nid under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for iguanid?

Close synonyms include iguanid lizard. 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 iguanid a common word?

iguanid is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.