"goanna" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: goannas [plural]
Rhymes: -ænə Etymology: A respelling in Australia of guana, from iguana. Rhyming slang sense rhyming on colloquial pronunciation 'pianner'. Etymology templates: {{m|en|guana}} guana, {{m|en|iguana}} iguana Head templates: {{en-noun}} goanna (plural goannas)
  1. Any of various monitor lizards native to Australia. Categories (lifeform): Anguimorph lizards Translations (various monitor lizards native to Australia): vardna (Adnyamathanha), bardna (Barngarla), 巨蜥 (jùxī) (Chinese Mandarin), wirriga (Dharug), arlewatyerre (english: sand goanna) (Eastern Arrernte), goanna (Finnish), thulii (english: sand goanna) (Gamilaraay), yurrandaali (english: tree goanna) (Gamilaraay), varánusz (Hungarian), puntunya (Kaurna), kaityita (Kaurna), kalta (english: sleepy lizard) (Kaurna), gowena (Kriol), mirntirimarta (Martuthunira), bardna (Narungga), waribadja (Narungga), budna (Ngadjuri), inawala (english: large) (Ngadjuri), thuyuni (english: large) (Ngarrindjeri), tiyungi (Ngarrindjeri), partna (Nukunu), wiralya (english: tree goanna) (Nukunu), karda (Nyunga), bangara (Nyunga), miḻpaḻi (Pitjantjatjara), tinka (Pitjantjatjara), kurkaṯi (Pitjantjatjara), mulyamaṟu (Pitjantjatjara), вара́н (varán) [masculine] (Russian), гоа́нна (goánna) [feminine] (Russian), mayinanji (Wambaya), walanja (Wardaman), kuwana (Warlpiri)
    Sense id: en-goanna-en-noun-CVZLwc6y Disambiguation of Anguimorph lizards: 74 26 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 47 53 Disambiguation of 'various monitor lizards native to Australia': 96 4
  2. (Australia, rhyming slang) A piano. Tags: Australia, slang
    Sense id: en-goanna-en-noun-15wZVEih Categories (other): Australian English, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 47 53
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Hyponyms: perentie Derived forms: racehorse goanna, sand goanna

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.