iguanodon
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of iguanodon
< New Latin (1825) < Spanish iguan ( a ) iguana + Greek odṓn, variant of odoús tooth
Vocabulary lists containing iguanodon
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Example Sentences
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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
Instead, a single iguanodon limped along the cobblestones, its hunchbacked rider reaching a long pole up to light the street lanterns one by one.
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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