What's the difference between alligator and crocodile?

Alligator


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator
  • (n.) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball
  • (n.) a rock breaker
  • (n.) a kind of job press, called also alligator press.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
  • (2) Cholecystokinin and bombesin cells previously reported in the small intestine of the alligator were not detected in this study.
  • (3) As in the case of other reptiles, particularly the alligator, a limited range of peptide-storing cells was found in the gut of the crocodile.
  • (4) Maximum-parsimony analyses of the total data set of 67 vertebrate alpha A sequences support the monophyletic origin of alligator, tegu, and birds and favor the grouping of crocodilians and birds as surviving sister groups in the subclass Archosauria.
  • (5) Blood samples from male alligators collected in North and South Carolina, south Florida, and in south Louisiana in two consecutive breeding seasons were also assayed for testosterone and corticosterone.
  • (6) Plus, my friends in Baltimore are quite happy for me to maintain my record of backing against them only to be proved wrong.... 9.49pm GMT More on the alligators... Paolo Bandini (@Paolo_Bandini) For what it's worth I've actually had alligator a couple of times this week.
  • (7) Both animals disposed of free or food-derived amino acids more rapidly than could be accounted for by catabolism alone, but the transient increases in turtle plasma concentrations consisted mostly of essential amino acids, whereas the alligator plasma showed little increase in essential amino acids and considerable rises in four nonessential amino acids, glutamine, glutamic acid, glycine and alanine.
  • (8) Occasionally, I have been invited to try exotic meats, ostrich say, or kangaroo or alligator.
  • (9) The synthesis and presumably the mitochondrial import of glutamine synthetase in alligator liver are thus very similar to the same processes in avian liver.
  • (10) In four such cases, we were able to remove the IUDs from inside the uterine cavity using a small alligator forceps guided by high-resolution ultrasound.
  • (11) The architecture of the jaw muscles and their tendons of Alligator mississippiensis is described and their function examined by electromyography.
  • (12) The auditory (cochlear) ganglion cells of the alligator lizard (Gerrhonotus multicarinatus) give rise to two types of peripheral fibers: tectorial fibers, which contact hair cells covered by a tectorial membrane, and free-standing fibers, which contact hair cells without a tectorial membrane.
  • (13) In common usage, “myth” is at best the word we use to refer to amusingly preposterous urban legends – tales about albino alligators in the Manhattan sewers or the Holy Grail’s hiding place under the floor of a Paris shopping mall.
  • (14) In teleostei, amphibians and reptiles (except alligator) spongy myocardium is avascular and receives its nutrition from the ventricle.
  • (15) One hundred and twenty-three alligators ranging in age from six months to over 10 years were captured from five locations in the southeastern United States and sampled for A. hydrophila.
  • (16) Cowhide and goatskin are used to make Mulberry goods, as well as ostrich leather and alligator skins.
  • (17) He might throw in some information on the alligator population of Louisiana or what snakes you are likely to find in the wilds of Panama.
  • (18) Eight alligators were trained to escape heat by traversing an 8-ft runway containing right or left approaches to a water tank.
  • (19) We obtained cultures from the mouth of ten alligators to characterize their oral flora.
  • (20) Wall Street traders impressed with his cut-throat tactics prefer the moniker "swamp alligator".

Crocodile


Definition:

  • (n.) A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (C. vulgaris, or C. Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (C. Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.
  • (n.) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As he has for the past 35 years, that is where Dr Seski intends to focus his energy and attention.” Also on Tuesday, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh said it was reviewing Seski’s donation of two Nile crocodiles and an American alligator to see if he followed international standards published since the donations were made.
  • (2) It has been characterised by others in government as just beating back the crocodiles that come close to the boat rather than draining the swamp."
  • (3) In both experiments, videotapes of model monkeys behaving fearfully were spliced so that it appeared that the models were reacting fearfully either to fear-relevant stimuli (toy snakes or a toy crocodile), or to fear-irrelevant stimuli (flowers or a toy rabbit).
  • (4) As in the case of other reptiles, particularly the alligator, a limited range of peptide-storing cells was found in the gut of the crocodile.
  • (5) The distributions of lipid, glycogen, peroxidase, acid and alkaline phosphatases, beta-glucuronidase and naphthol AS-D chloroacetate esterase have been studied in the cells of peripheral smears from the wall ghecko and the crocodile.
  • (6) Such is the success of the image overhaul in some areas that the slogan in the municipality of San Mariano where the foundation works is now: "Philippine crocodile: something to be proud of."
  • (7) The white paper proposals were “scary” and threatened multiple areas of conservation, not just crocodile management, he said.
  • (8) The syndrome of crocodile tears, or Bogorad's syndrome is a rare complication of the facial paralysis.
  • (9) It is her work to change this image through community initiatives that has seen Gatan Balbas recognised with a Whitley Fund for Nature award and helped to bring the Philippine crocodile ( Crocodylus mindorensis ) back from the brink of extinction.
  • (10) This is the first record of P. multilineata from Asia (Beijing, People's Republic of China) and also a new host record for the estuarine crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).
  • (11) The ABC reported Scullion believes the Territory government could allow crocodile safaris under its own management plan once an agreement between it and the commonwealth on one-stop shop environmental approvals was settled.
  • (12) It was concluded that the bilateral paresis was caused by severe septic arthritis secondary to bacteremia, and that the crocodile died from spinal injury caused by the blood transfusion into the supravertebral vein.
  • (13) People want to hear your accent, to buy you drinks, to ask questions about spiders and crocodiles and Neighbours and maybe the cricket.
  • (14) Nucleus magnocellularis is probably homologous with the nucleus magnocellularis medialis of lizards and crocodiles, and has been described in turtles as nucleus dorsalis magnocellularis by previous authors.
  • (15) Gold award • Jean Wiener – Haiti "Lifetime achievement" award for 25 years conserving Haiti's coastal ecosystems and securing its first marine protected areas Whitley Fund for Nature awards • Shivani Bhalla – Kenya Warrior Watch: enabling the coexistence of people and lions in northern Kenya • Luis Torres – Cuba Building a national movement to save Cuba's amazing plant life • Fitryi Pakiding – Indonesia Uniting coastal communities to secure the Pacific's last stronghold for nesting leatherback turtles • Marites Gatan-Balbas – Philippines Taking local action to save the world's rarest crocodile • Melvin Gumal – Malaysia Protecting Borneo's iconic great apes: conservation of orangutans in Sarawak • Stoycho Stoychev – Bulgaria The imperial eagle as a flagship for conserving the wild grasslands of south-eastern Bulgaria • Paula Kahumbu – Kenya Hands off our elephants: delivering African leadership to address Kenya's poaching crisis
  • (16) Compare this to the Coalition party room, which has more holes than a meat-sack thrown to the crocodiles.
  • (17) Fear of crocodiles and hippopotami is important because villagers are compelled to use for domestic purposes, the smaller, shallower habitats, where Bulinus (Ph.)
  • (18) The process begins in the paravasal mesenchyma which is gradually disguised by hemopoietic cells (in chicken embryos--at the stage of 8 days, in crocodiles--23 days of incubation).
  • (19) Eagle steals camera near crocodile meat trap In the frame Source: Viral Video Chart .
  • (20) A mummified crocodile in the back streets of Oxford might not be an obvious guardian for one of life's great mysteries.