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Definition of Gharials
1. gharial [n] - See also: gharial
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gharials
Literary usage of Gharials
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Museum Guides: Vertrbrates by British Museum (Natural History) (1906)
"The existing Alligators, Crocodiles, and gharials, collectively forming this
order, are large, four-footed, long-tailed reptiles, w teeth implanted in ..."
2. A Statistical Account of Bengal by William Wilson Hunter, Herbert Hope Risley, Hermann Michael Kisch (1877)
"With them may be seen a few gharials and many turtles, all apparently living in
perfect harmony together, and finding food in the swarms of fish which live ..."
3. Nature's Strongholds: The World's Great Wildlife Reserves by Laura Riley, William Riley (2005)
"Dense concentrations of two endangered species of crocodiles are in the Narayani
River and lakes here, some 70 rare marsh muggers and 150 gharials (muggers ..."
4. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1898)
"They include three distinct types or groups : the Crocodiles, Alligators, Gavials
or gharials. The last group is confined at the present time exclusively to ..."
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