Definitions for Iguanodon

Iguanodon i·guan·o·don

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

Iguanodon is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in Iguanodon (adginnoou).

Definitions for Iguanodon

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  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.

Origin of Iguanodon

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

Examples for Iguanodon

iguanodon Mantelli is smaller and more slender looking, with a height of over ten feet, and a length of about twenty feet.

The iguanodon was an herbivorous terrestrial reptile that formerly inhabited England.

"I think it can have been no other than the iguanodon," said the doctor.

If it's not an iguanodon, it's a prehistoric animal of some sort.

iguanodon, i-gw′no-don, n. a large extinct herbivorous reptile, with teeth like those of the iguana.

Again, as with the iguanodon, the foot to fit the track may be found in the same layer of rock, but this is not often the case.

Where the iguanodon lived the elephant might have lived, but there was no elephant at that time.

As in iguanodon, there were three toes to the hind feet, and these were probably covered by strong hoofs.

The first of these monsters is the iguanodon, the earliest known individual of the “bird-footed” division (Ornithopoda).

The American Hadrosaurus must have decidedly resembled the iguanodon.

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