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单词 horned iguana
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horned iguana
1. A large arboreal lizard of the West Indies and South America, Iguana tuberculata, which attains to a length of five feet or more; also, in Zoology, the name of the genus, which includes the horned iguana of San Domingo, and other species; and loosely applied to other lizards of allied genera.
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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. vii. f. 126 Foure footed beastes..named Iuannas, muche lyke vnto Crocodiles, of eyght foote length, of moste pleasaunte taste.
1596 L. Keymis Relation 2nd Voy. Guiana sig. B4 Store of fish, foule, Deere, and Iwanas.
1600 F. Pretty in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 815 Iguanos which are a kinde of Serpents, with foure feete, and a long sharpe tayle.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iv. xxxviii. 313 The flesh of the Yguanas is a better meate.
1607 G. Percy in Purchas Pilgrimes (1625) iv. 1686 We also killed Guanas, in fashion of a Serpent, & speckled like a Toade vnder the belly.
1617 W. Raleigh Apol. 37 [South America] hath plenty of..Tortoyses, Armadiles, Wanaes.
1630 J. Smith True Trav. 54 Gwanes they have, which is a little harmlesse beast, like a Crokadell or Aligator, very fat and good meat.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. xix. 143 Another kind of meat they feed much on which is called Iguana.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam I. 147 That species which is here called the iguana, and by the Indians the wayamaca, is seldom above 3 feet long.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. Introd. 15 Iguanas, and other lizards, are found in all places.
1859 J. E. Tennent Ceylon II. vii. ii. 122 The hideous but harmless iguano..moves slowly across the high-road.
1880 A. R. Wallace Island Life ii. 27 The peculiarly American family of the iguanas is represented by two genera in Madagascar.
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