Iguanodon Definition

ĭ-gwänə-dŏn
noun
Any of a genus (Iguanodon) of very large, herbivorous, two-footed ornithopod dinosaurs.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A genus of ornithopod dinosaur that lived roughly halfway between the first of the swift bipedal hypsilophodontids and the ornithopods' culmination in the duck-billed dinosaurs.

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Singular:
iguanodon
Plural:
iguanodons

Origin of Iguanodon

  • New Latin Iguanodōn genus name iguana –odon

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Iguanodon Sentence Examples

  • The remains of Iguanodon occur in the Hythe beds.

  • Mantell in the Wealden formation of Sussex, and a large part of the skeleton, lacking the head, was subsequently discovered in a block of ragstone in the Lower Greensand near i Skeleton of Iguanodon bernissartensis.

  • The typical species, Iguanodon mantelli, measures 5 to 6 metres in length, while I.

  • The Cretaceous beds are not extensive, but the Wealden deposits of Bernissart, with their numerous remains of Iguanodon, and the chalk of the district about the Dutch frontier near Maastricht, with its very late Cretaceous fauna, are of special interest.

  • The iguanas are characterized by the peculiar form of their teeth, these being round at the root and blade-like, with serrated edges towards the tip, resembling in this respect the gigantic extinct reptile Iguanodon.

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