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Definition of Crocodilian
1. Noun. Extant archosaurian reptile.
Generic synonyms: Diapsid, Diapsid Reptile
Group relationships: Crocodilia, Crocodylia, Order Crocodilia, Order Crocodylia
Specialized synonyms: Crocodile, False Gavial, Tomistoma Schlegeli, Alligator, Gator, Caiman, Cayman, Gavial, Gavialis Gangeticus
Definition of Crocodilian
1. a. Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.
Definition of Crocodilian
1. Noun. A reptile resembling a crocodile. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crocodilian
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crocodilian
Literary usage of Crocodilian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1921)
"... XVI AND XVII Among a number of well-preserved Tertiary crocodilian skulls in
the American Museum collections is one which is unusually well pre- med. ..."
2. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley, Michael Foster (1902)
"XIII THE crocodilian REMAINS FOUND IN THE ELGIN SANDSTONES, WITH REMARKS ON THE
... crocodilian ..."
3. Wonders of Geology; Or, A Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena: Or A by Gideon Algernon Mantell (1848)
"30. Fossil Turtles. 31. Marine Reptiles. 32. crocodilian Reptiles. 33. Fossil Teeth
of Crocodiles. 34. Fossil Crocodile of Swanage. 35. ..."
4. William Ellery Channing: A Centennial Memory by Charles Timothy Brooks (1880)
"Better that the globe should be tenanted by brutes, than by brutalized men,"—
read these passages, and then the indignant rebuke of the crocodilian ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1842)
"In the Wealden strata, biconcave crocodilian vertebras have been discovered by Dr.
Mantell differing in form from those of the crocodilian with obtuse teeth ..."
6. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1870)
"This crocodilian bias or taint running through Prof. Owen's memoir deprives his
comparisons of all value; for it prevents him from stating the whole truth ..."
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