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Example sentences for "iguanas"

Lexicographically close words:
ignoto; ignotum; igual; igualmente; iguana; igy; ihm; ihn; ihnen; ihr
  1. Iguanas are caught with the hands, their legs broken, and thus they are kept until required for food.

  2. They are fond of iguanas and their eggs, and of parrots, killing the latter with stones.

  3. Clumsy gray iguanas and long-tailed lizards of a brilliant green rushed up the trunks of lichen-covered trees.

  4. Gray iguanas and pendants of dove orchids hung from the limbs above, and green and gold lizards scuttled up the trees at our approach.

  5. The common iguanas are numerous in the neighbourhood of villages, where they climb the trees for the sake of their fruit.

  6. The insides of iguanas and fish are taken out all in one piece.

  7. Evidently the iguanas were digging out holes in the bank in which to lay their eggs; for there were several such holes, and iguanas working at them.

  8. A few paces from the clearing, some monstrous iguanas were lying in the sun, wallowing in the grayish mud of a stream whose water ran with a slight murmur through the obstacles of every description that impeded its course.

  9. On this same bank our guides showed us a nest of young iguanas only four inches long.

  10. All the stones were covered with an innumerable quantity of iguanas and geckos with spreading and membranous fingers.

  11. We approached the range just before sunset, much tired, with two Wonga-Wongas and three iguanas at our saddles.

  12. The Iguanas (Hydrosaurus, Gray) have a slight bluish tinge about the head and neck; but in the distribution of their colours, generally resemble H.

  13. Their flesh, resembling that of chicken, is a favorite article of food and iguanas are constantly brought to rural markets.

  14. Cuvier and others considered it to be a kind of link between the Iguanas and the Monitors.

  15. In that part of New South Wales in which the writer was born--one of the tidal rivers on the northern coast--both snakes and iguanas were plentiful, and a source of continual worry to the settlers.

  16. A few of the giant iguanas were seen, and many smaller ones.

  17. These are hares who race away at the advent of a train, and iguanas whose long tails stream behind them as they depart in a flurry.

  18. We had purchased some iguanas in the market, and Louis had been skinning them.

  19. Iguanas are found in Egypt, in Syria, and elsewhere.

  20. Both of these Iguanas reach about four feet in length.

  21. There are but few species of Iguanas found in the United States and these only in the southwestern part.

  22. These iguanas are extremely ugly, but are said to be delicious eating, the Indians being very fond of them.

  23. I once saw a solitary "pisoti" hunting for iguanas amongst some bushes near the lake where they were very numerous, but during the quarter of an hour that I watched him, he never caught one.

  24. Iguanas live chiefly among the branches of trees which overhang the water.

  25. The iguanas are characterized by the peculiar form of their teeth, these being round at the root and blade-like, with serrated edges towards the tip, resembling in this respect the gigantic extinct reptile Iguanodon.

  26. Although chiefly arboreal, many of the iguanas take readily to the water; and there is at least one species, Amblyrhynchus cristatus, which leads for the most part an aquatic life.

  27. The prevailing colour of the iguanas is green; and, as the majority of them are arboreal in their habits, such colouring is generally regarded as protective.

  28. In the family of Iguanas the Basilisk may be noted.

  29. Gray, or the tribe of the Iguanas and their kindred, and that of the Geckos and their kindred.

  30. These Iguanas live principally on trees, and near the windward coast of the island" (of St. Lucia).

  31. The Iguanas live chiefly on trees, but they take readily to the water, swimming with great facility.

  32. They are very commonly miscalled Iguanas by Europeans and their descendants, in the countries where they are found.

  33. They had hunted deer in the uplands, tigres in the marsh grass of the coastal land, iguanas where the palmera whined, alligator and ibis in the lagoons, wolf and bear midway up the great peak, eagles at the summit.

  34. Belly high to the horse, a stone wall paralleled the trail, iguanas here and there.

  35. As a matter of fact the iguanas are harmless, their shape and coloring being designed to protect them.

  36. Notwithstanding this, when he heard that it was one of the largest sized iguanas ever seen, the professor started through the jungle after it.

  37. And when the black fellows hear the curreequinquins singing "Goore, goore," they know that they can go out and find iguanas again, and find them fatter than when they went away with the coming of winter.

  38. This the boys did, but they brought only the fat, having eaten the rest of the iguanas from which they had taken the fat.


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