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noun
Any large dinosaur of the genus †Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: dinosaur
History
Learned borrowing from taxonomic name Iguanodon, from Spanish iguana (from Taíno *iwana) + translingual -odon.
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