词汇 | iguana |
词根词缀 | 词源: 1555, from Sp., from Arawakan iguana, iwana, the local name for the lizard."Foure footed beastes ... named Iuannas, muche lyke vnto Crocodiles, of eyght foote length, of moste pleasaunte taste." [Richard Eden, "Decades of the New World," 1555]Dinosaur name Iguanodon is 1830, from iguana + stem of Gk. odonys "tooth," on model of mastodon; so called because the fossil teeth and bones were thought to resemble those of the lizard. |
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