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t. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, 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.

A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in Sout…

Having the ability to live both on land and in water, as frogs, crocodiles, beavers, and some plants.

.] Skelton. Such as give some proof of animosity, audacity, and execution, those she [the crocodile] loveth. Holland.

ck cockatoo of Australia is Microglossus aterrimus. Cock"a*trice, n. Etym: [OF. cocatrice crocodile, F. cocatrix, cocatrice. The word is a corruption from the same source as E. crocodile, but was confused with cock the bird, F. coq, whence arose the fable that the animal was produced from a cock's egg. See Crocodile.]…

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

Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile. -- n.

To lay down; to place; to put; to let fall or throw down (as sediment); as, a crocodile deposits her eggs in the sand; the waters deposited a rich alluvium. The fear is deposited in conscience. Jer. Taylor.

which appear in early paintings and sculptures are invariably representations of a winged crocodile. Fairholt.

A large Asiatic crocodilian (Gavialis Gangeticus); -- called also nako, and Gangetic crocodile.

), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted…

An animal covered with bony scales, as crocodiles among reptiles, and the pangolins among mammals.

tian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.

The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.

The great river of Egypt. Nile bird. (Zoöl.) (a) The wryneck. [Prov. Eng.] (b) The crocodile bird. -- Nile goose (Zoöl.), the Egyptian goose. See Note under Goose, 2.

Of or pertaining to the river Nile; as, the Nilotic crocodile.

The crocodile bird.

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

A reptile whose teeth are rooted in sockets, as the crocodile.

ater crabs of the genus Thelphusa, as T. depressa of Southern Europe. -- River dragon, a crocodile; -- applied by Milton to the king of Egypt. -- River driver, a lumberman who drives or conducts logs down rivers. Bartlett. -- River duck (Zoöl.), any species of duck belonging to Anas, Spatula, and allied genera, in w…