lagarton.
Obsolete.
An alligator.
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1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 73v Pimple stones..whiche are founde in greate quantitie in the mawes of Caimanes, that are called Lagartos.
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 48 We saw in it [the Orenoque] diuers sorts of strange fishes, & of maruellous bignes, but for Lagartos it exceeded, for there were thousands of those vglie serpents.
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