alligator : Idioms & Phrases

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Alligator apple

  • (Bot.), the fruit of the Anona palustris, a West Indian tree. It is said to be narcotic in its properties. Loudon.
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alligator clip

  • noun a clip with a spring that closes the metal jaws
    bulldog clip.
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Alligator fish

  • (Zoöl.), a marine fish of northwestern America (Podothecus acipenserinus).
Webster 1913

Alligator gar

  • (Zoöl.), one of the gar pikes (Lepidosteus spatula) found in the southern rivers of the United States. The name is also applied to other species of gar pikes.
Webster 1913

alligator grass

  • noun prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses
    Alternanthera philoxeroides; alligator grass.
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alligator lizard

  • noun slim short-limbed lizard having a distinctive fold on each side that permits expansion; of western North America
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alligator mississipiensis

  • noun large alligator of the southeastern United States
    Alligator mississipiensis.
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Alligator pear

  • noun a pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed
    avocado; avocado pear; aguacate.
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  • (Bot.), a corruption of Avocado pear. See Avocado.
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alligator sinensis

  • noun small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits
    Alligator sinensis.
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alligator snapper

  • noun large species having three ridges on its back; found in southeastern United States
    alligator snapper; Macroclemys temmincki.
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Alligator snapper, Alligator tortoise, Alligator turtle

  • (Zoöl.), a very large and voracious turtle (Macrochelys lacertina) in habiting the rivers of the southern United States. It sometimes reaches the weight of two hundred pounds. Unlike the common snapping turtle, to which the name is sometimes erroneously applied, it has a scaly head and many small scales beneath the tail. This name is sometimes given to other turtles, as to species of Trionyx.
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alligator snapping turtle

  • noun large species having three ridges on its back; found in southeastern United States
    alligator snapper; Macroclemys temmincki.
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alligator weed

  • noun prolific South American aquatic weed having grasslike leaves and short spikes of white flowers; clogs waterways with dense floating masses
    Alternanthera philoxeroides; alligator grass.
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Alligator wood

  • the timber of a tree of the West Indies (Guarea Swartzii).
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alligator wrench

  • noun a wrench with a v-shaped jaw and serrations on one side (resembles the open jaws of an alligator)
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american alligator

  • noun large alligator of the southeastern United States
    Alligator mississipiensis.
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chinese alligator

  • noun small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits
    Alligator sinensis.
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genus alligator

  • noun type genus of the Alligatoridae
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