alligator
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: ]
From early Modern English alligater, alligarta, aligarto, alegarto, alagarto, from Spanish el lagarto (“the lizard”), from Latin lacertus (“lizard”), modern spelling possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin alligator (“one who binds”).
Inflected forms:
form: alligators
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: alligators
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: alligatoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: alligatored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: alligatored
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Either of two species of large amphibious reptile, Alligator mississippiensis or Alligator sinensis, in the genus Alligator within order Crocodilia, which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.
pos: noun
examples: All you could see of the alligator were two eyes above the water, then suddenly it snatched up and caught the poor bird with strong jaws full of sharp teeth.
Alligators and crocodiles look extremely alike.
The main distinguishing feature is the teeth. In a crocodile the teeth in its upper and lower jaws are in line, but in an alligator, when its mouth is shut, the upper teeth lie outside the lower ones.
In 1967, the federal government declared alligators to be an Endangered Species and prohibited gator hunting and the sale of hides. The alligator responded and by the mid-1970s, the reptile numbers soared to an estimated half-million.
They ran to the village screaming at the top of their lungs that an alligator was coming after them. Several of the men in Alimacani retrieved from a storehouse the tool they used to catch alligators.
gloss: A crocodilian of the subfamily Alligatorinae.
pos: noun
gloss: A dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis)
pos: noun
tags: Nigeria
gloss: A crocodile of any species.
pos: noun
tags: dated
examples: Alligators were very numerous, in fact the harbour was infested by them.
gloss: Any of various machines with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various machines with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various machines with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator.
pos: noun
gloss: Any of various vehicles that have relatively long, low noses in front of a cab or other, usually windowed, structure.
pos: noun
gloss: An alligator-skin shoe.
pos: noun
tags: plural-normally
gloss: A swing music fan or performer, especially one who is white.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
gloss: To crack in a pattern resembling an alligator's skin.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Alligatoring is a result of the sun making the top surface of the asphalt brittle.
Sealing an area that is alligatoring is a temporary solution that may delay having to replace the asphalt for several years. A more permanent repair would be to replace the alligatored section.
Common burn indicators include alligatoring, crazing, the depth of char, lines of demarcation, sagged furniture springs and spalling.
gloss: Used in a common chronometric counting scheme, in which the speaker counts out loud, saying the word "alligator" between the numbers so that each number is spoken approximately one second after the last one.
pos: intj
examples: The same way people will count the seconds between lightning and thunder, I counted the seconds between coughs. One-alligator, two-alligator, three-alligator.
Derived words: Allegheny alligator
Alligator Alcatraz
Alligator Alley
alligator apple
alligator bait
alligator clamp
alligator clip
alligatored
alligator fish
alligatorfish
alligator flag
alligator forceps
alligator gar
alligator grass
alligatoring
alligator juniper
alligator leather
alligatorlike
alligator lizard
alligator pear
alligator pepper
Alligator Pond
alligator press
alligator saw
alligator shear
alligator snapper
alligator snapping turtle
alligator spread
alligator terrapin
alligator tortoise
alligator turtle
alligator-turtle
alligator weed
alligatorweed
alligator-wood
alligatorwood
alligator wrench
American alligator
big-lipped alligator moment
Chinese alligator
closest alligator to the boat
gator
Haile alligator
Olsen's alligator
prairie alligator
you later alligator
spectacled alligator
werealligator
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