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# iguana

«iguana» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large lizard with a row of spines down its back, found…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (an iguana, iguanas)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An iguana is a large lizard with a row of spines down its back, found in hot parts of Central and South America and the Caribbean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iguana/#m1)

2) The marine iguana of the Galapagos Islands is the only lizard that swims and feeds in the sea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iguana/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons iguanas are examples of reptiles: cold-blooded, scaly, laying eggs, and needing the sun to warm up. Green iguanas are mostly plant eaters. Charles Darwin saw marine iguanas in the Galapagos. Some people keep iguanas as pets. Phrases: «green iguana», «marine iguana».

### examples

- An iguana lay on the warm rock in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iguana/#x1)
- Iguanas are reptiles, so they are cold-blooded. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iguana/#x2)
- The green iguana eats leaves, flowers and fruit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iguana/#x3)
- Marine iguanas dive into the sea to eat seaweed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iguana/#x4)
- My cousin keeps an iguana in a big glass tank. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iguana/#x5)
- The iguana's long tail can whip at an enemy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iguana/#x6)

### note

Countable; use «an» (an iguana). Stress: ig-WAH-nuh. Iguanas are lizards, not dinosaurs, although they look a little like small dinosaurs.

### In the corpora

- [Sally Lightfoot crabs are bright red crabs that leap from rock to rock, eat algae and pick ticks off marine iguanas.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions/16/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «iguana» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/iguana/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.