| 单词 | american crocodile |
| 释义 | > as lemmasAmerican crocodile American crocodile n. †(a) an armadillo (obsolete); †(b) the American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis (obsolete); (c) a neotropical crocodile, Crocodylus acutus, with a long tapering snout, found from Florida and Mexico to Venezuela and Peru. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Edentata > [noun] > family Dasypodidae (armadillo) > other types of American crocodile1678 kabassou1774 pichiciego1825 chlamydophore1836 kabalassou1884 1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone Descr. Nature Four-footed Beasts iii. 92/2 He is fourefooted, covered all over, tail and all with a hide like the slough of a Serpent, called the American-Crocodile, betwixt white, and ash-colour, but inclining more to white, like a Barbed war-horse, as big as an ordinary Dog, harmles, burrowing himself in the earth, like the Conies. 1733 S. Humphreys tr. N. A. Pluche Spectacle de la Nature I. xiii. 153 You mean the American Crocodile. 1851 De Bow's Rev. July 52 I shall now proceed to..other lower orders of animals, and the most prominent is the Alligator, or American Crocodile, sometimes called Lacerta Alligator. 1953 H. S. Zim & H. M. Smith Reptiles & Amphibians iv. 114 American crocodile is smaller, thinner, more agile than the alligator. 1991 Nature Conservancy May–June 28/2 This single island [sc. Key Largo] supports four globally endangered species—American crocodile, Schaus's swallowtail butterfly, and the Key Largo wood rat and cotton mouse. < as lemmas |
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