Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A crocodilian reptile (Gavialis gangeticus) of South Asian rivers, having a long slender snout that in mature males has a bulbous growth at the tip.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
gharrial .
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- noun
gavial
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Examples
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Like the south Pacific mekosuchines, the Murua gharial was again fairly small, at 2-3 m long.
Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Like the south Pacific mekosuchines, the Murua gharial was again fairly small, at 2-3 m long.
Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians Darren Naish 2006
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In the water itself are some unusual fish-eating crocodiles, called gharial, playful smooth-coated otters, and if you're lucky, you may see Gangetic dolphin, a freshwater mammal that chomps on fish and crustaceans.
TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com 2009
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Dr Emily Rayfield at the University of Bristol used computer modelling techniques – more commonly used to discover how a car bonnet buckles during a crash – to show that while Baryonyx was eating, its skull bent and stretched in the same way as the skull of the Indian fish-eating gharial – a crocodile with long, narrow jaws.
Croc Update (Prehistoric Edition) Bill Crider 2008
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T.M. Maskey has studied the survival and dispersal of gharial released in the Narayani River.
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Reintroduction of gharial (Gavialis gangeticus) in Nepal.
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Padampur Panchayat, located immediately to the south of the Rapti River, is a heavily populated area as well as providing some of the last remaining habitat for tiger, rhinoceros, and gharial.
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The Aberdeen University Expedition to Nepal in 1980 surveyed fish resources in the Narayani River system with respect to the endangered gharial population.
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Chitwan supports the world's second largest population of Indian rhinoceros and is also an important refuge for tiger and gharial.
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Other notable reptiles are mugger Crocodylus palustris (V) (declining from at least 200 in 1978 to 70 in 1986/1988), gharial Gavialis gangeticus (E), Indian starred tortoise Geochelone elongata and monitor lizards Varanus spp.
milosrdenstvi commented on the word gharial
A sort of a sub-Indian crocodiliac.
August 15, 2008
super-logos commented on the word gharial
The look was gharial,
Might have been malarial,
For all I care-ial.
It was truly scare-ial.
August 15, 2008
knitandpurl commented on the word gharial
""I'll see a lion, a tiger, a jackal. I'll be attacked by a naja cobra, and a gharial. I'll rescue a child from the claws of a condor."
My Beautiful Bus by Jacques Jouet, translated by Eric Lamb, p 83
May 23, 2013