Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various reptiles of the order Crocodylia (or Crocodilia), which includes the alligators, the crocodiles, the caimans, and the gharial.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling the members of this order.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling a crocodile.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to or of the nature of the crocodile; hence, in allusion to crocodile tears, hypocritical. See
crocodile , a. - noun A crocodile; one of the Crocodilia.
- noun Also, improperly, spelled
crocodilean .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A reptile resembling a
crocodile .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun extant archosaurian reptile
Etymologies
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Examples
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Trilophosuchus rackhami gen. et sp. nov., a new crocodilian from the early Miocene limestones of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.
The small, recently extinct, island-dwelling crocodilians of the south Pacific Darren Naish 2006
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Trilophosuchus rackhami gen. et sp. nov., a new crocodilian from the early Miocene limestones of Riversleigh, northwestern Queensland.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Which is unfortunate, since every time the word crocodilian came up he gave out a little cheer.
Archive 2003-04-01 Gwenda 2003
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Which is unfortunate, since every time the word crocodilian came up he gave out a little cheer.
shaken & stirred Gwenda 2003
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But in the words of Torch blogger Mark Collins, a few crocodilian tears spilled by one blogger in particular has necessitated a response.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Seeing as most "progessives", yourself included, do not want the CF to be fighting at all in Afstan, I see the reaction as strictly crocodilian.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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Unsustainable hunting and habitat destruction brought this large American crocodilian to the brink of extinction by the middle of the last century.
David Mizejewski: Fuel Your Car With Alligator Fat? David Mizejewski 2011
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The French luxury powerhouse is buying Heng Long International, a Singapore-based business that sources, tans and processes crocodilian leather.
Overheard 2011
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Did a crocodilian Deukalion and Pyrrha somehow escape the cataclysm and repopulate the terrestrial marshlands?
Stromata Blog 2010
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Did a crocodilian Deukalion and Pyrrha somehow escape the cataclysm and repopulate the terrestrial marshlands?
Stromata Blog: 2010
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