Definition of Family Gavialidae

1. Noun. Gavials.

Exact synonyms: Gavialidae
Generic synonyms: Reptile Family
Group relationships: Crocodilia, Crocodylia, Order Crocodilia, Order Crocodylia
Member holonyms: Gavialis, Genus Gavialis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Gavialidae

family Forficulidae
family Formicariidae
family Formicidae
family Fouquieriaceae
family Fregatidae
family Fringillidae
family Fucaceae
family Fulgoridae
family Fumariaceae
family Funkaceae
family Furnariidae
family Gadidae
family Galbulidae
family Gasterophilidae
family Gasterosteidae
family Gavialidae (current term)
family Gavidae
family Geastraceae
family Gekkonidae
family Gelechiidae
family Gempylidae
family Gentianaceae
family Geoglossaceae
family Geometridae
family Geomyidae
family Geophilidae
family Geraniaceae
family Gerreidae
family Gerridae
family Gerrididae

Literary usage of Family Gavialidae

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

1. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"family Gavialidae.—There is but one living species of gavials, Gavialis gangeticus (Fig. 137, C), confined to the Ganges and other large rivers of India. ..."

2. Nyasaland Under the Foreign Office by Hector Livingston Duff (1906)
"Certainly I have never seen or heard of any of the family Gavialidae in the waters of Nyasaland, ..."

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