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saltwater crocodile

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.91 in modern English

Syllables
salt-wa-ter crocodile
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A very large aquatic carnivorous crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), found from the Bay of Bengal through southeastern Asia to Australia, the Philippines, and Vanuatu.

Inflected Forms

saltwater crocodiles (plural)

Synonyms

estuarine crocodile Indo-Pacific crocodile marine crocodile saltie sea crocodile

Questions

What does saltwater crocodile mean?
A very large aquatic carnivorous crocodile (Crocodylus porosus), found from the Bay of Bengal through southeastern Asia to Australia, the Philippines, and Vanuatu.

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