(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.
Predatory
Definition:
(a.) Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
(a.) Hungry; ravenous; as, predatory spirits.
(a.) Living by preying upon other animals; carnivorous.
Example Sentences:
(1) When estrus was terminated with human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG), predatory behavior did not further regress as it did in control runs.
(2) Here’s Marie-Josée Kravis, advisor to the New York Fed, accessorizing brilliantly with her snake-effect silk scarf off on a power walk with her billionaire financier husband Henry Kravis, head of predatory investment company KKR.
(3) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
(4) The introduction of Zonitoides nitidus -- predatory snail -- without vegetation modification produces a progressive elimination of Lymnaea in 3 years.
(5) The difficulty in reconciling these results with the preeminent role assigned to the hypothalamus in the organization of predatory aggressive behavior was considered.
(6) The rest, drowning in credit card debts – and remember the predatory interest rates some cards charge – or surrounded by loan sharks, will have to fend for themselves.
(7) It is concluded that predatory behavior is based on specific mechanisms separate from both alimentary and instrumental ones.
(8) Paradoxical sleep is associated with a factor related to predatory danger, which suggests that large amounts of this sleep phase are disadvantageous in prey species.
(9) Once the story of a predatory homosexual was presented in court, Carr became a victim and the murder was framed as an honour killing.
(10) The doubts over what some see as Miliband's lack of presentational skills and "wonkiness" have, in part, been stilled by his flashes of courage and intuitive accord with the public mood – on Libor, on predatory capitalism, on Murdoch.
(11) There is no independent proof that Kammerer was a predatory stalker; there is only Carr's word for the pursuit from St Louis to New York; there is persuasive evidence that Kammerer was not gay.
(12) Google's provision of its Android operating system for free is anti-competitive "predatory pricing", according to a complaint filed with European regulators by Fairsearch Europe, a group whose members include bitter rival Microsoft .
(13) The third experiment revealed that LiCl injections did not influence either maternal aggression or locust killing in naive females and predatory aggression in experienced-killer females.
(14) However, predatory attack on insect larvae was unaltered by any dose of the compound.
(15) He is hostile to the centralised state as well as predatory capitalism, concerned about rising levels of mental illness and worried about the widening income gap.
(16) The marine gastropods Acmaea (Collisella) limatula and Acmaea (Notoacmea) scutum respond to distant predatory starfish (i.e.
(17) They do so by accommodating predatory tax practices, in response to opportunities provided by countries like the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
(18) These findings clearly indicate that amphetamine reactivity is influenced by prior exposure to a predator, the presence of predatory odors during testing, and the subject's sex.
(19) Enough with bullshit like McDonald’s slapping MLK’s face on their predatory and poverty creating labor practices.
(20) The attorney general claimed the bank knew the trader engaged in predatory behaviour.