Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See the extract.
- noun The name in Cuba for the lace-like inner bark of the blue or mountain mahoe, Pariti elatum, a malvaceous tree 50 to 60 feet high.
- noun The tuberculated lizard, Iguana tuberculata: same as
iguana . - noun The great New Zealand lizard, Hatteria punctata.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See
iguana .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US A contraction of
iguana (the lizard) made in British colonial America. (Reference: The Dinkum Dictionary : The Origins of Australian Words, Susan Butler, Text Publishing, 2001,ISBN 187648585X .)
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Examples
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a substance in South America called 'guana', which he had analysed and found to contain one-third of ammoniacal salt with other salts and carbon, but its use was not to come for another generation.
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I have been guana free for a few months now ... but the urge never really goes away.
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Everything from cleaning out a septic tank, to standing hip deep in bat guana, this guy is game for everything.
Archive 2007-07-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007
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December 15, 2007 at 9:16 pm yeah, whin R wii guana git moar ob it?
Guts, - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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"Um big 'guana down by de stable; come quick an' bring 'tick an' we kill him togedder!"
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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"Oh, he caught a 'guana before the rain came on, and that prevented him from going to cut the grass," I explained.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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And surrounded by the monkey-chiefs, those princes of Raghu's house with fingers cased in guana skin, shone, as they went, like the Sun and the Moon in the midst of the planets.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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And at the command of Yudhishthira, the strong-armed Arjuna, taking up the _Gandiva_ as also his inexhaustible quivers, and accoutred in mail and gauntlets and finger-protectors made of the skin of the guana, and having poured oblations into the fire and made the Brahmanas to utter benedictions after gifts, set out (from _Kamyaka_) with the objects of beholding Indra.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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And at the command of Yudhishthira, the strong-armed Arjuna, taking up the Gandiva as also his inexhaustible quivers, and accoutred in mail and gauntlets and finger-protectors made of the skin of the guana, and having poured oblations into the fire and made the Brahmanas to utter benedictions after gifts, set out (from Kamyaka) with the objects of beholding Indra.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Me catchee big manacou byme-bye; an 'dat heap betterer dan nasty fat-face' guana.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
slumry commented on the word guana
An iguana with inner knowledge?
(See gnosis/ignosis)
July 10, 2007
reesetee commented on the word guana
Female guano?
Eew.
July 11, 2007
slumry commented on the word guana
New precision in identifying unseen animals: "Look at those tracks! It must have been a big buck. But wait...that's guana. I guess it was a VERY big doe."
July 11, 2007