crocodilian
/ˌkɹɒkəˈdɪliən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.61 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
of, pertaining to, or resembling crocodiles
Example Sentences
- "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, 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."
- "Superb predators, the crocodilians are reptiles, and the only survivors of the archosaurs that included dinosaurs."
- "Crocodilians are essentially lizard-like in basic shape and are adapted to a largely aquatic life. ln water, they hunt and eat their prey and advertise their size and location by bellowing."
- "However, it is possible that baby titanoboas and Titanoboa eggs were preyed upon by the same crocodilians the adults ate."