marine iguana

1. 1.

   shore-dwelling seaweed-eating lizard of the Galapagos Islands

   SynonymsAmblyrhynchus cristatus

   Broaderiguanid

   Part ofAmblyrhynchus

Questions about marine iguana

What does marine iguana mean?

marine iguana means "shore-dwelling seaweed-eating lizard of the Galapagos Islands".

What is another word for marine iguana?

Close synonyms include Amblyrhynchus cristatus. 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 marine iguana a common word?

marine 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.