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crocodilians

crocodilians is the plural of crocodilian.

Meaning of crocodilian

Noun

crocodilian (plural crocodilians)

  1. Any reptile of the order Crocodilia; a crocodile, alligator, caiman or gavial.
    • Mound-nesting crocodilians and megapodes appear to be indifferent to nest-site parameters, but susceptibility of crocodilian mound nests to predation or drowning may be altered by site selection.1989, Walter P. Coombs, Jr., Modern analogs for dinosaur nesting and parental behavior, James Orville Farlow (editor), Paleobiology of the Dinosaurs, Issue 238, page 47

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Questions about crocodilians

What is crocodilians the plural of?
Crocodilians is the plural of crocodilian.

Words near crocodilians in the dictionary

  1. crocodilepox
  2. crocodiles
  3. crocodiles' tears
  4. crocodiley
  5. crocodilian
  6. crocodilians
  7. crocodiliform
  8. crocodiling
  9. crocodility
  10. crocodilly
  11. Crocodilopolis

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