Animals, plants & weather

iguana

Spanish chroniclers took the Taíno name of the big Caribbean lizard, iwana, and English had it by the 1550s; Dutch fused it with the article (la iguana → leguaan) and carried it to South Africa as likkewaan, a monitor lizard, while English made it the dinosaur Iguanodon.

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