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Meaning of मगरमच्छ in English

  • A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. 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 fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
  • Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.
  • One of the Crocodilia.
  • 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 South America.
  • Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator
  • a form of squeezer for the puddle ball
  • a rock breaker
  • a kind of job press, called also alligator press.
  • Same as Crocoite.

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