iguanodon
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See also: Iguanodon
English
Etymology
From Spanish iguana (from Taíno iwana) + -odon.
Noun
iguanodon (plural iguanodons)
- Any of several large dinosaurs, of the genus Iguanodon, of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World , London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- August the twenty-eighth - the day we saw five live iguanodons in a glade of Maple White Land.
French
Noun
iguanodon m (plural iguanodons)
Further reading
- “iguanodon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French iguanodon.
Noun
iguanodon m (plural iguanodoni)
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
| nominative-accusative | iguanodon | iguanodonul | iguanodoni | iguanodonii | |
| genitive-dative | iguanodon | iguanodonului | iguanodoni | iguanodonilor | |
| vocative | iguanodonule | iguanodonilor | |||