Words similar to crocodile

Example sentences for: crocodile

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Baiza `small copper coin of Oman,' for example, is the Arabic version of Hindi paisa . Datura `type of plant' and vanda `variety of orchid' reached English via New Latin; gavial `large crocodile,' from Hindi ghariyal ) via French; and mohar `silver coin of Nepal' via Nepalese.
On a stay at one of these lodges, a half day is usually spent in dug-out canoes searching for endangered gharials, a narrow jawed fish-eating crocodile, and their flesh-eating cousins, the huge marsh muggers.
crocodile tears.
Thus, English has champac `tree' instead of campak, gharry `horse-drawn cab or carriage' instead of gari, darshan `a Hindu blessing' instead of darsan . A change of vowels or a doubling of a consonant is also not infrequent, thus giving English kunkur `variety of limestone' in lieu of kankar, mulmul `muslin' in lieu of malmal, muggar `kind of crocodile' in lieu of magar . Dozens of similar examples could be cited.
In the next courtyard, the Mul Chowk, there are two outstanding examples of 17th-century Newari metalwork, tall bronze reliefs of the goddesses Ganga (standing on a crocodile) and Jamuna (standing on a tortoise).