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Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working)

A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side.

cal America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.

The south America alligator. See Alligator. [Sometimes written caiman.]

ris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.

An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.

The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike. Gar pike, or Garpike (Zoöl.), a large, elongated ganoid fish of the genus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America.

or Menopoma Alleghaniensis). It is very voracious and very tenacious of life. Also called alligator, and water dog.

An alligator. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

oporus undulatus), native of the Middle States; -- called also swift, brown scorpion, and alligator. -- Pine marten. (Zoöl.) (a) A European weasel (Mustela martes), called also sweet marten, and yellow-breasted marten. (b) The American sable. See Sable. -- Pine moth (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small tortri…

A division of Crocodilia, including the true crocodiles and alligators, in which the dorsal vertebræ are concave in front.

A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.

from its habit of seizing its prey by a snap of its jaws. Called also mud turtle. (b) See Alligator snapper, under Alligator.

The curved plate in which the form is held in a type-revolving cylinder press. Alligator turtle, Box turtle, etc. See under Alligator, Box, etc. -- green turtle (Zoöl.), a marine turtle of the genus Chelonia, having usually a smooth greenish or olive-colored shell. It is highly valued for the delicacy of its flesh, wh…

A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman. [Written also jacare.]