crocodile : Idioms & Phrases

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african crocodile

  • noun a dangerous crocodile widely distributed in Africa
    African crocodile; Crocodylus niloticus.
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asian crocodile

  • noun estuarine crocodile of eastern Asia and Pacific islands
    Crocodylus porosus.
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Crocodile bird

  • noun African courser that feeds on insect parasites on crocodiles
    Pluvianus aegyptius.
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  • (Zoöl.), an African plover (Pluvianus ægypticus) which alights upon the crocodile and devours its insect parasites, even entering its open mouth (according to reliable writers) in pursuit of files, etc.; called also Nile bird. It is the trochilos of ancient writers.
Webster 1913

crocodile river

  • noun an African river; flows into the Indian Ocean
    Limpopo.
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Crocodile tears

  • noun a hypocritical display of sorrow; false or insincere weeping
    • the secretaries wept crocodile tears over the manager's dilemma
    • politicians shed crocodile tears over the plight of the unemployed
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  • false or affected tears; hypocritical sorrow; derived from the fiction of old travelers, that crocodiles shed tears over their prey.
Webster 1913

morlett's crocodile

  • noun a variety of crocodile
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nile crocodile

  • noun a dangerous crocodile widely distributed in Africa
    African crocodile; Crocodylus niloticus.
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