IGUANODON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does iguanodon mean? 

• IGUANODON (noun)
  The noun IGUANODON has 1 sense:

1. massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period

  Familiarity information: IGUANODON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IGUANODON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("iguanodon" is a kind of...):

dinosaur (any of numerous extinct terrestrial reptiles of the Mesozoic era)

Holonyms ("iguanodon" is a member of...):

genus Iguanodon (type genus of the Iguanodontidae)

 Context examples 

He described also the iguanodon and the pterodactyl—two of the first of the wonders which they had encountered.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the jungle which we traversed were numerous hard-trodden paths made by the wild beasts, and in the more marshy places we saw a profusion of strange footmarks, including many of the iguanodon.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the way, what is this mark upon the iguanodon's hide?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some of them who had disappeared into the jungle came back presently driving a young iguanodon before them.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I thought of the despairing yell of the tortured iguanodon—that dreadful cry which had echoed through the woods.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The iguanodon glade was the scene of a horrible butchery.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Around its edge were scattered a number of leathern thongs cut from iguanodon hide, and a large collapsed membrane which proved to be the dried and scraped stomach of one of the great fish lizards from the lake.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a moment, as I saw its shape, I hoped that it was an iguanodon, which I knew to be harmless, but, ignorant as I was, I soon saw that this was a very different creature.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)