iguanodon

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun massive herbivorous bipedal dinosaur with a long heavy tail; common in Europe and northern Africa; early Cretaceous period

From Spanish iguana (from Taíno *iwana) + translingual -odon.

The iguanodon glade was the scene of a horrible butchery. — The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
Still more shadowy were the sinister crocodilian outlines—alligators and other uncouth shapes, culminating in the colossal lizard, the iguanodon. — A pair of blue eyes, Thomas Hardy
The suit against the Canal Company required a great deal of research, as law-books were then scarce, and precedents for breaches of contract against corporations were not many; this form of legal life being comparatively modern in that day, like the dawn of the floral age, or before megatheriums grazed above the trees or iguanodons swam in the canals. — The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times, George Alfred Townsend

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