iguanaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Spanish iguana, from Taíno *iwana.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɪ.ɡjuˈɑːnə/, /ɪˈɡwɑːnə/
• (米国発音) enPR: ĭ-gwäʹ-nə, IPA^(key): /ɪˈɡwɑnə/, /əˈɡwɑnə/
• 韻: -ɑːnə

名詞

iguana (複数形 iguanas)

1. A green iguana (Iguana iguana), a large tropical American lizard often kept as a pet.
2. (zoology) Any member of the genus Iguana.
3. Colloquially, in America and the Pacific, any of several members of the lizard family Iguanidae.
4. Colloquially, in Africa, any large member of the genus Varanus, especially the aquatic Nile monitor (see leguan).
5. (Australia, formerly) Any member of the genus Varanus (see goanna).
   • 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 161:

     The last they had had, was an iguana one of the blacks had brought in; and though he felt disgusted at the idea of eating it, he made up into a kind of stew, and they both enjoyed it immensely.

派生語

参照

• iguana at OneLook Dictionary Search
• iguana in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• Iguana on Wikipedia.
• Iguana on Wikispecies.
• Iguana on Wikimedia Commons.

アナグラム

• Guiana, Inagua