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US
/ˈkɹɑkəˌdaɪɫ/
]
[ UK /kɹˈɒkədˌaɪl/ ]
[ UK /kɹˈɒkədˌaɪl/ ]
NOUN
- 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
How To Use crocodile In A Sentence
- We know now they were crocodile tears. The Sun
- He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
- She did not know that this Congo River was the home of the Crocodile, the biggest, fiercest, scaliest, hungriest Crocodile in all Africa. The Curious Book of Birds
- For as long as they were there, no crocodile or armored herbivorous or general carnivorous dinosaur could grow very big.
- Several blooded animals take this sleep, such as the pholidotes or tessellates, namely, the serpent, the lizard, the gecko, and the river. crocodile, all of which go into hiding for four months in the depth of winter, and during that time eat nothing. The History of Animals
- A fourth person was mauled to death by a crocodile, the paper reported.
- Some worshipers wear designer jeans and expensive, crocodile-skin boots, the uniform of many traffickers.
- They were surrounded by hyenas, crocodiles and hippos and while in the swamps they went barefoot so they would feel a potentially deadly crocodile beneath their feet. The Sun
- It is actually the possession and retreat of a thundering absolute crocodile.
- The fishermen assured us that a small crocodile, the bava, * which often approached us when we were bathing, contributes also to the destruction of the fish. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America