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Definition of African crocodile
1. Noun. A dangerous crocodile widely distributed in Africa.
Lexicographical Neighbors of African Crocodile
Literary usage of African crocodile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1863)
"... indicating the existence of an animal which required further study and examination.
lie then proceeded to speak of the African crocodile. ..."
2. The Uganda Protectorate: An Attempt to Give Some Description of the Physical by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1902)
"Amongst reptiles, the common African crocodile is naturally the most prominent.
These creatures as they lie on the rocks and sand appear to be of enormous ..."
3. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"The African crocodile, Crocodilus niloticus (Fig. 451), is one of the few man-eating
species, and has probably destroyed more human beings than any other ..."
4. British Central Africa: An Attempt to Give Some Account of a Portion of the by Harry Hamilton Johnston (1898)
"... that is the common African crocodile (Crocodilus niloticus}. At the same time
I would point out a fact which I have noticed here as in West Africa, ..."
5. A Handy Book of Curious Information: Comprising Strange Happenings in the by William Shepard Walsh (1913)
"Having no acquaintance with the African crocodile, they saw in the novel animal
only its likeness to a monster lizard. So when the Greeks came into Egypt, ..."
6. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1863)
"... of the African crocodile. He observed that Adanson mentioned three crocodiles
as found in the Senegal. Cuvier, in his monograph, thought that Adanson ..."
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