Word Meanings - ALLIGATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Lowered
  of Lower
• LARGEACRED
  Possessing much land.
• Southerner
  An inhabitant or native of the south, esp. of the Southern States of North America; opposed to Northerner.
• Southwest
  The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region.
• Teethed
  of Teeth
• Allineation
  Alt. of Alineation
• Thereinto
  Into that or this, or into that place.
• Carnivorous
  Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: (a) to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; (b) to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; (c) to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics.
• Unitarianism
  The doctrines of Unitarians.
• Common sense
  See Common sense, under Sense.
• Unitize
  To reduce to a unit, or one whole; to form into a unit; to unify.
• Lowering
  of Lower
• LARGEHANDED
  Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful.
• Snouty
  Resembling a beast's snout.
• Southernliness
  Southerliness.
• Southwester
  A storm, gale, or strong wind from the southwest.
• Teething
  of Teeth
• Allision
  The act of dashing against, or striking upon.
• Thereof
  Of that or this.

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