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Definition of Gavials
1. gavial [n] - See also: gavial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gavials
Literary usage of Gavials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Two Years in the Jungle: The Experiences of a Hunter and Naturalist in India by William Temple Hornaday (1885)
"The Jumna swarming with gavials.—A " Mass Meeting. ... I was steadily gathering
in a bountiful harvest of gavials, birds, and mammals ; I had glorious sport ..."
2. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"Alligators and Crocodiles: Their Habits—Caymen, gavials and Crocodiles—Mode of
Seizing their Prey—Size of Alligators—Alligators on the Amazon—Alligator and ..."
3. The Class Reptilia by Edward Pidgeon, Edward Griffith, Georges Cuvier (1831)
"THE gavials. Cuv. Have the muzzle narrow, and greatly elongated. The teeth are
pretty nearly equal—the fourth below passing, when the mouth is closed, ..."
4. Water Reptiles of the Past and Present by Samuel Wendell Williston (1914)
"In habits the gavials are more distinctly aquatic than are the crocodiles ...
The gavials have lived a long time in the Indian regions, the Gangetic gavial ..."
5. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1902)
"During the Eocene, typical gavials lived in the seas of England, but they migrated
southward during subsequent Tertiary time, and their remains are found ..."
6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1837)
"The upper mandible of the gavials is never pierced for the intromission of the teeth
... The gavials are besides distinguished by the narrowness and length ..."
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