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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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of iguanodon

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


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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

Why perhaps the Martians already have tried at the epoch of the iguanodon and the dinosaur and got tired.

From Time Magazine Archive

The iguanodon tooth that started it all–arguably the most important tooth in paleontology–is no longer on display.

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

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