Noun:

घडि़याल की जाति का जलजंतु, घडि़याल,

alligators's Usage Examples:

Capybaras can be easily tamed; numbers are killed on land by jaguars and in the water by caimans - the alligators of South America.

That in the palace gardens flowers from the tierra caliente were transplanted, and water-fowl bred near fresh and salt pools fit for each kind, that all kinds of birds and beasts were kept in well-appointed zoological gardens, where there were homes even for alligators and snakes - all this testifies to a cultivation of natural history which was really beyond the European level of the time.

Other industries of a desultory character include the collection of archil, or Spanish moss, on the western side of the Californian peninsula, hunting herons for their plumes and alligators for their skins, honey extraction (commonly wild honey), and the gathering of cochineal and ni-in insects.

Every bayou contains alligators; and reptiles of various species, such as turtles, lizards, horned toads, rattlesnakes and moccasins are abundant.

The above list shows that the usual statement that crocodiles inhabit the Old World and alligators the New World is not strictly true.

Hippopotami are found on the coast, and alligators are common in the rivers and lagoons of the low country.

Other species, especially the alligators, make a very large nest of leaves, twigs and humus, scraping together a mound about a yard high and two or more yards in diameter.

Alligators and crocodiles are numerous in the lagoons and rivers of the coast and the iguana is to be found everywhere throughout the tropical lowlands, the large black Ctenosura acanthinurus being partly arboreal in habit when full grown.

In Central and South America alligators are represented by five species of the genus Caiman, which differs from Alligator by the absence of a bony septum between the nostrils, and the ventral armour is composed of overlapping bony scutes, each of which is formed of two parts united by a suture.

Alligators are found in the low coast region and are especially numerous in the Nueces river.

Synonyms:

Chinese alligator, crocodilian reptile, Alligator mississipiensis, Alligator sinensis, crocodilian, American alligator, genus Alligator, gator,

Antonyms:

stay, inferior, anapsid,