iguanodon

/ih-gwah-nuh-don, ih-gwan-uh-/US // ɪˈgwɑ nəˌdɒn, ɪˈgwæn ə- //UK // (ɪˈɡwɑːnəˌdɒn) //

鬣蜥龙,鬣蜥蜥蜴,鬣蜥蜴,禽龙

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a plant-eating dinosaur of the genus Iguanodon that lived in Europe early in the Cretaceous Period and grew to a length of from 15 to 30 feet and walked erect on its hind feet.

In some of them such as Stegosaurus the exoskeleton is strongly developed, in others such as Iguanodon it is absent.
It was carnivorous, and therefore more ferocious than the iguanodon, and more ready to attack.
The American Hadrosaurus must have decidedly resembled the Iguanodon.
"I think it can have been no other than the Iguanodon," said the doctor.
Yet the iguanodon was thirty feet long, with a thigh six feet, and a body fourteen feet in circumference.