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Definition of Crocodilian reptile

1. Noun. Extant archosaurian reptile.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crocodilian Reptile

Literary usage of Crocodilian reptile

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

1. Petrifactions and Their Teachings; Or, A Hand-book to the Gallery of Organic by Gideon Algernon Mantell (1851)
"The remains of a small crocodilian reptile, consisting of a considerable portion of the ... The teeth of this extinct crocodilian reptile are flat, pointed, ..."

2. Annual Report by Smithsonian Institution (1865)
"Another crocodilian reptile, the remains of which have been found in the green-sand ... Another crocodilian reptile, much larger than any of the preceding, ..."

3. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1899)
"... in the main, a crocodilian reptile. Its dermal armour, its sacrum, its scapula:, are eminently crocodilian ; its femur and dorsal and caudal vertebra; ..."

4. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1860)
"... essentially resembling those of a crocodile, and from these and other traces he came to the conclusion that it had been a crocodilian reptile allied to ..."

5. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1860)
"... essentially resembling those of a crocodile;; and from these and other traces he came to the conclusion that it had been a crocodilian reptile allied to ..."

6. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1891)
"A crocodilian reptile from the Kinetic of Link Mil M north of Elgin. This is represented by one bone, apparently a ..."

7. The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1860)
"... essentially resembling those of a crocodile]; and from these and other traces he came to the conclusion that it had been a crocodilian reptile allied to ..."

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