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Definition of Genus Iguana

1. Noun. Type genus of the Iguanidae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Iguana

Literary usage of Genus Iguana

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1867)
"The genus Iguana is the type of this family. Thie name was given by Laurenti to a genus of Saurians, ... The genus Iguana, as adopted by them, includes /! ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"For this reason the flesh of several of them, especially of the genus Iguana, is very palatable, is sought by the natives of Central and South America as ..."

3. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1866)
"The family of lizards, of which the genus Iguana is the type, and which is divided, according to minor modifications of the leading characters of the ..."

4. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"For this reason the flesh of several of them, especially of the genus Iguana, is very palatable, ..."

5. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1831)
"The reptiles which most naturalists have hitherto regarded as belonging to the genus iguana are tolerably numerous; but modern naturalists, after having ..."

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