One of the largest and most widely distributed is the commoniguana (Iguana tuberculata), which occurs in the tropical parts of Central and South America and the West Indies, with the closely allied I.
But the favourite resorts of the iguana are trees which overhang the water, into which they let themselves fall with a splash, whatever the height of the tree, and then swim away, or hide at the bottom for many minutes.
Taking the Kamilaroi again, the Muri-iguana man brings into his group a Butha-emu woman; their children are Ipatha-emu.
If, for example, an emu man has killed, let us say, an iguana man, it is the duty of the iguana men to avenge the death of their kinsman.
The Iguana is found in trees, and feeds chiefly on fruits and other vegetable substances.
Notwithstanding its repulsive and even frightful appearance, the Iguana is perfectly harmless and inoffensive.
The flesh of the iguana and the bat is savoury and delicate; but as for its taste, that entirely depends upon the imagination, as may here be seen.
The first dish served round at dinner was the curry, of which they one and all partook with very good appetite; upon which I ventured to say: "You see the flesh of the iguana is most delicate.
No doubt the meat of the iguana gave the blacks at the station a supper that they greatly enjoyed.
I have known of an iguana to appear in a party of pleasure seekers, picnicking in the woods, and make quite a serious disturbance.
Presently Bingong sighted an iguana and caught it, and the three gathered about it in the shade of the sandal.
After a time the interest in the iguana seemed to have shifted to something else; and they were all speaking very earnestly.
We all crowded round to examine it, and as we stooped caught sight of the owner not a hundred yards ahead, engrossed in unearthing an iguana and entirely ignorant of our presence.
A lizard origuana calls for a further exercise of culinary knowledge.
The iguana attains a large size in Jamaica, whence the present specimen was obtained, not unfrequently approaching four feet in length.
The Iguana (Cyclura colei) is not only of singular aspect, but it may be regarded as the type of a large and important group in the Saurian family, which formed so conspicuous a feature in the ancient fauna of this country.
Once upon a time there lived two good friends,--an iguana and a turtle.
So the iguana released the turtle, and was tied up in his place.
The iguana wandered everywhere looking for him, and finally he found him under the old man's house, tied to a post.
Early in the morning the iguana went to look for his friend the turtle.
There he found the iguana saying, "I want to marry your daughter.
The iguana wanted to see the turtle's grandfather, so he climbed up the tree, and put his mouth between the two bamboos that were rubbing together.
Now, the iguana very much wanted a wife, and he was delighted at this chance.
The old man picked up a big stick to beat its head, but the iguana cut the string and ran away.
One day the turtle invited the iguana to go catch fish in a certain pond that he knew of.
In the forest I always saw the "pisoti" hunting in large bands, from which an iguana would have small chance of escape, for some were searching along the ground whilst others ranged over the branches of the trees.
Doubtless experience had taught him that his perseverance would ultimately be rewarded: that sooner or later he would surprise a corpulent iguana fast asleep on some branch, and too late to drop from his resting-place.
At last we found that the noise was made by large iguana lizards, some of them three feet long, and very bulky, dropping from the branches of trees, on which they lay stretched, into the water.
Iguana= (Iguana tuberculata) is found in the East Indies and in South America.
Here, indeed, was a problem set before him that if wrongly solved would have amounted to his serious discomfiture, yet there he sat puzzling his soul (to all appearances) over the novel flavour of a broiled iguana cutlet.
The boy was late in delivering them, because he had been deflected from his duty by an iguana that crossed his path and to which he immediately gave chase.
Allan writing from Bonny in 1889 says: "The worship of theiguana is overthrown, the priest is a regular attendant at the house of God, and the iguana itself converted into an article of food.
The Chaco Indians rejoice in stewed monkey and fried slices of gran vibora, a snake peculiar to that swamp, while the iguanais held in edible estimation by the white population.
Among the quelonians is the carumbe a Brobdingnagian snapping turtle and in the hydrosaurian class is the crocodile, cayman alligator, and the iguana or teyu, the latter being esteemed for its white meat not unlike spring chicken in taste.
The entree was strange, namely, fillets of a species of iguana lizard.
The huge and terrible-looking iguana lizard, as found on the coast of Africa, crawling on the trees, is very excellent eating, and so were these fillets.
They keep cobras, pythons, scorpions, and the iguana or large lizard, which they consider to be poisonous.
They think that the teeth of the iguana are also poisonous and they knock them out with a stick, and if fresh teeth afterwards grow they believe them not to contain poison.
This Iguana is not averse to water, when not too cold, taking to it only when the sun is shining; in fact, not moving about much at any other time.
Whilst always retaining the same colours, this Iguana has the power of considerably changing its hues; but these changes are gradually performed.
By some of the natives this Iguana is said to eat Lizards and insects; but I have opened several, and I have never succeeded in finding any but vegetable matter in the stomach.
In a few seconds we saw the iguana ascend still higher, then he disappeared with his hateful prey among the loftier branches.
A large number of the species inhabiting the lowlands are wide-ranging species, such as Bufo marinus, Iguana iguana, and Boa constrictor.
On the other hand, several people in Coalcoman consider the "iguana negra" (local name for Ctenosaura) to be a delicacy and serve it at every opportunity.
The iguana is a lizard which feeds on fruits and vegetables.
The armadillo and iguana are preferred for food, however.
He rarely touches meat, except pork, on which he mainly feeds, but he often catches fish for his dinner, and looks upon an iguana or a bull-frog as a desirable delicacy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "iguana" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chameleon; dragon; reptile
