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Definition of Crocodile

1. Noun. Large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters.

Definition of Crocodile

1. n. A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.

Definition of Crocodile

1. Noun. Any of a variety of related predatory amphibious reptiles, related to the alligator. ¹

2. Noun. A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crocodile

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crocodile

Literary usage of Crocodile

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Filipino Popular Tales by Dean Spruill Fansler (1921)
"His version follows in abstract form: — A crocodile goes out to look for a ... As the crocodile starts to cross a stream, a monkey asks for passage on its ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"Strabo, in his account of the sacred crocodile, which he himself presented with food, speaks but of a single individual. Herodotus, in the same way, ..."

3. Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat, Charles Otto Blagden (1906)
"The ' bay ' crocodile to her mate of the reaches, The crocodile whose head is knobbed and lumpy, The crocodile whose tail is like a sword-blade. ..."

4. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"lu Siani the flesh of the crocodile is sold for food in the markets and bazars. The Singhalese believe that the crocodile can only move swiftly on eand or ..."

5. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"(F.-L.-Gk.) F. crocodile. cockatrice. (F. - Low L.-L.- Greek.) By confusion with cock, it was said to be a monster hatched from a cock's egg; it is merely a ..."

6. Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1841)
"The principal cause of the respect paid to this animal was supposed to be its hostility to the crocodile, an animal held in great abhorrence by the people ..."

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