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Definition of Crocodiles

1. crocodile [n] - See also: crocodile

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crocodiles

Literary usage of Crocodiles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Geology, Physical and Historical by Herdman Fitzgerald Cleland (1916)
"crocodiles.—The Triassic ancestral crocodiles have so many characters in common ... Among the changes that the crocodiles underwent during the Mesozoic, ..."

2. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion by James George Frazer (1900)
"crocodiles are animals of this sort. They are only found in hot ... Hence it is a general rule among savages to spare crocodiles, or rather only to kill ..."

3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1903)
"läge that could boast a temple of its own. In the Ptolemy «naie period, even after the extensive reclamations from La .^sake Moeris, crocodiles must have ..."

4. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"Portions of crocodiles have l>een discovered fossil in the Siwalik Hills ... In India the crocodiles are often called alligators ; but the alligator belongs ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1846)
"Note upon two Crania of crocodiles in the Belfast Museum*. ... THE existing crocodiles are still but imperfectly defined, and there is little agreement ..."

6. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1830)
"crocodiles—researches, prosecuted by various naturalists of different countries, and by the Baron himself. These researches occasioned certain ..."

7. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society by Bombay Natural History Society (1891)
"HARPOONING crocodiles. Bo. C. 3. CAPTAIN G. BUTTON-JONES, of the Deoli Irregular Force, who is a keen sportsman, sends us an account of the method adopted ..."

8. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"Alligators and crocodiles: Their Habits—Caymen, Gavials and crocodiles—Mode of Seizing their Prey—Size of Alligators—Alligators on the Amazon—Alligator and ..."

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