Definition of Crocodilia. Meaning of Crocodilia. Synonyms of Crocodilia

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Definition of Crocodilia

Crocodilia
Crocodilia Croc`o*dil"i*a (-d?l"?-?), n. pl. [NL., fr. L. crocodilus crocodile.] (Zo["o]l.) An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials, alligators, and many extinct kinds.

Meaning of Crocodilia from wikipedia

- have appeared in human cultures around the world since Ancient Egypt. "Crocodilia" and "Crocodylia" have been used interchangeably for decades starting...
- sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Crocodilia in India" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2014)...
- made several short art films. Ridley has written three books for adults: Crocodilia (1988), In the Eyes of Mr. Fury (1989), and Flamingoes in Orbit (1990)...
- Crocodilia is an order of mostly large, predatory, semiaquatic reptiles, which includes true crocodiles, the alligators, and caimans; as well as the gharial...
- lumped into the order Crocodilia. However, beginning in the late 1980s, many scientists began restricting the order Crocodilia to the living species and...
- forward like a wave. On average a tooth is replaced every few months. Crocodilia are the only non-mammalian vertebrates with tooth sockets. Alligators...
- epidermal components of the integumentary system in animals of the order Crocodilia. The epidermal scutes of the alligator consists of oblong horny scales...
- dinosaur clade Theropoda. According to the current consensus, Aves and Crocodilia are the sole living members of an unranked clade, the Archosauria. Simplified...
- the family Alligatoridae. They are the smallest members of the order Crocodilia in the Americas. The genus name Paleosuchus is derived from the Gr****...
- reptile in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae of the order Crocodilia. The two extant species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis)...