Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

iguanodon

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.64 in modern English

Syllables: iguan-odon
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any large dinosaur of the genus †Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

Example Sentences

"August the twenty-eighth - the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land."

Etymology

Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Iguanodon, from Spanish iguana (from Taíno *iwana) + translingual -odon.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: iguana, *iwana

Inflected Forms

iguanodons (plural)

Questions

What does iguanodon mean?: Any large dinosaur of the genus †Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Where does iguanodon come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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