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Meanings of crocodile family in English

Russian
crocodylidae
Portuguese
crocodylidae
Spanish
crocodilidos
Catalan
crocodylidae
Wikidata

Family of reptiles.

        Related terms
        crocodylidae
        Usage of crocodile family in English
        1
        There is no need for the numerous divisions and subdivisions which have been made of the crocodile family.
        The Boy Hunters
        2
        It had been conjectured that the animal to which these bones belonged was amphibious, and perhaps of the crocodile family.
        The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13,...
        3
        He knows he is in the presence of a rare specimen, the improbable forefather of the crocodile family which today stalks African waterways.
        The South African
        4
        A cayman, one of the crocodile family, pale and chalk-white, perks its head at our approach, then slides off its sandbar and into the water.
        Full Circle
        5
        "There are not more than a dozen varieties of the whole crocodile family-atleast, there are not more known to naturalists."
        The Boy Hunters