Definitions for iguana

iguana i·gua·na

Spelling: [ih-gwah-nuh]
IPA: /ɪˈgwɑ nə/

Iguana is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in iguana (aaginu).

Definitions for iguana

noun

  1. a large, arboreal lizard, Iguana iguana, native to Central and South America, having stout legs and a crest of spines from neck to tail.
  2. any of various related lizards of the genera Iguana, Ctenosaura, Conolophus, and Amblyrhynchus.

Origin of iguana

1545-55; Spanish Arawak iwana

Examples for iguana

Williams would have only one more commercial success, Night of the iguana in 1961, after his partnership with Kazan ended.

One in my possession has engraven on it the figure of an iguana.

Manuel, squatting on his heels, turned the iguana over a tiny fire.

Stephens relates how his men found an iguana in one of the ruins in a crevice.

We found he had just discovered the nest of an iguana, filled with eggs.

A lizard or iguana calls for a further exercise of culinary knowledge.

The colour of the iguana changes, like that of the chameleon.

Parrots jabbered and a few of them roosted in the iguana tree.

He uttered the cry of the iguana, and swam towards the bank.

The white and juicy flesh of the iguana was quite a feast for us all.

Word Value for iguana
Scrable

7

Words with friends

10

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