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- Alligator - n. - A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America.
- Alligator - n. - Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator
- Alligator - n. - a form of squeezer for the puddle ball
- Alligator - n. - a rock breaker
- Alligator - n. - a kind of job press, called also alligator press.
- Gar - v. - The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.
- Crocodile - n. - A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.
- Avocado - n. - The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.
- Yacare - n. - A South American crocodilian (Jacare sclerops) resembling the alligator in size and habits. The eye orbits are connected together, and surrounded by prominent bony ridges. Called also spectacled alligator, and spectacled cayman.
- Alligator - n. - a kind of job press, called also alligator press.
- Snapper - n. - A snapping turtle; as, the alligator snapper.