iguanodon

American  

[ih-gwah-nuh-don, ih-gwan-uh-] / ɪˈgwɑ nəˌdɒn, ɪˈgwæn ə- /

noun

1. a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Iguanodon that lived in Europe early in the Cretaceous Period and grew to a length of from 15 to 30 feet (4.5 to 9 meters) and walked erect on its hind feet.

---

iguanodon British  

/ ɪˈɡwɑːnəˌdɒn /

noun

1. a massive herbivorous long-tailed bipedal dinosaur of the genus Iguanodon, common in Europe and N Africa in Jurassic and Cretaceous times: suborder Ornithopoda (ornithopods)

---

Etymology

Origin of iguanodon

< New Latin (1825) < Spanish iguan ( a ) iguana + Greek odṓn, variant of odoús tooth

Example Sentences

In 2000, Mr. Wright played Kron, an iguanodon, in the Disney computer-animated film “Dinosaur.”

From Washington Post • May 26, 2021

Much worse than, say, two tents on an iguanodon.

From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2017

The exhibition takes us from the fossilised head of an iguanodon, discovered during mining, to an engraving of the ironworks at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire at the beginning of the industrial revolution.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2012

He believes them laid by the duckbill iguanodon.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gideon Mantell, the man who had found and identified the iguanodon, was not among them.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson