Definitions
Large aquatic reptile with a long snout and powerful jaws.
Word origin
Inherited from Middle English cocodrill, cokadrill, cokedril, from Old French cocodril (modern French crocodile), from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos). The word was later refashioned after the Latin and Greek forms. Doublet of krokodil.
Used in a sentence
“The Roman poet Horace states that the excrement of the crocodile has aphrodisiac virtues.”
“Two species of crocodile inhabit Australian waterways: (a) the saltwater Crocodile — Crocodylus porosus, and (b) the freshwater crocodile — Crocodylus johnstoni.”
“Sometimes the kids from the slap-up boys' schools in Eastbourne used to be led round in crocodiles to hand out fags and peppermint creams to the 'wounded Tommies', as they called us.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Big river hunter”9 letters
02“Toothy river reptile”9 letters
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