CROCODILE
\kɹˈɒkədˌa͡ɪl], \kɹˈɒkədˌaɪl], \k_ɹ_ˈɒ_k_ə_d_ˌaɪ_l]\
Definitions of CROCODILE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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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
By Princeton University
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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Proceeding from a crocodile; false or affected, as the tears the crocodile is fabled to shed over its victim.
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A large amphibious animal, having the back and tail covered with large and square scales; a captious sophism contrived to ensnare an adversary.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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A large voracious reptile of amphibious habits, in shape resembling a lizard, and covered with scutes.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Greek] A genus of the saurian animals growing to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet. It inhabits the large rivers Africa and Asia, and lays its eggs, resembling those of a goose, in the sand, to be hatched by the heat of; the sun—it is allied to the; alligator.
