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Meaning of मगर in English

  • 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.
  • One who carries the cross before an archbishop.
  • 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.
  • An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.
  • Like, or pertaining to, the crocodile; characteristic of the crocodile.
  • One of the Crocodilia.
  • A caption or sophistical mode of arguing.
  • Lead chromate occuring in crystals of a bright hyacinth red color; -- called also red lead ore.

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