| 释义 |
leguan|ˈlɛgjʊən|
Also legouane.
[? a. F. l'iguane (iguane iguana, with def. art.).]
= iguana, guana.
1790E. Helme tr. Le Vaillant's Trav. Afr. I. 391 The Hottentot who fired at the Hippopotamus came home late..and was obliged to meet the sarcasms of my Hottentot wits, who tried to persuade him he had fired at a Legouane (a kind of large lizard, common in the rivers of Africa). 1834Pringle Afr. Sk. vi. 210 Frequented by numbers of the large amphibious lizard called the leguan or guana. 1877J. A. Chalmers Tiyo Soga xviii. 347 The second [doctor] removes the cause of disease, which is either a lizard, a serpent, or a leguan. |
