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crocodylian

crocodylian is the alternative form 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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Forms of crocodylian

pluralcrocodylians

Questions about crocodylian

What is crocodylian the alternative form of?
Crocodylian is the alternative form of crocodilian.

Words near crocodylian in the dictionary

  1. crocodility
  2. crocodilly
  3. Crocodilopolis
  4. crocoduck
  5. crocoducks
  6. crocodylian
  7. crocodylians
  8. crocodylid
  9. crocodylids
  10. crocodyliform
  11. crocodyliforms

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