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  • noun Plural form of crocodile.

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Examples

  • I have already said, the crocodiles are divided into three genera -- _crocodiles_, _gavials_, and _alligators_.

    The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

  • "The RCMP says a story about a young man from B.C. on holiday in Cancun, Mexico, who was kidnapped outside a bar, forced to fight two other tourists, shot in the shoulder and dumped in the water where he was attacked by crocodiles, is a fabrication."

    Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009

  • Add in crocodiles, lions, elephants, zebras, etc. and call it Africa the RTS. fesworks

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - The most amazing video of the week 2007

  • Aquarius: Having two of your enemies brought before you and then cast into a slimy pit filled with crocodiles is just another way to say 'early weekend'.

    Horoscope for the week of December 18, 2007 2007

  • "We saw at last a river before us, and as it was too broad to cross, and we were afraid, should we attempt to swim over, that we might be picked off by one of those big scaly beasts they call crocodiles, we kept down along the bank, as we knew that it must lead us to the opposite side of the island to where we had landed.

    Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Rune wanted to go on, for the crocodiles were a constant threat to the young ones, but Zena refused to relinquish Screech.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • Rune wanted to go on, for the crocodiles were a constant threat to the young ones, but Zena refused to relinquish Screech.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • Rune wanted to go on, for the crocodiles were a constant threat to the young ones, but Zena refused to relinquish Screech.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • Yer know as crocodiles is reckoned ther fastest swimmers in ther water.

    Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys

  • Hither to this shore I came without further accident, having spent some ten hours in my tub, though it was but a chance that I did so, because of the horrible reptiles called crocodiles, or, by some, alligators, with which this river swarmed.

    Montezuma's Daughter Henry Rider Haggard 1890

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