gavial
Noun
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Noun
gavial (plural gavials)
- The crocodilian Gavialis gangeticus; any species of the family Gavialidae.
- 2002, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arnould, Tiiu Ojasoo (translator), Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution, [1997, Les avatars du gène: La théorie néodarwinienne de l'évolution], page 28 ↗,
- Cuvier had begun studying the fossils of crocodiles found near Caen and Honfleur in France. (They were, in fact, gavials, fine-jawed crocodiles that are nowadays found in India).
- 2006, Lynn Huggins-Cooper, Ravenous Reptiles, page 19 ↗,
- Although human remains and jewelry have been found in their stomachs, gavials are not as fierce as many alligators and crocodiles.
- 2011, Joseph T. Springer, Dennis Holley, An Introduction to Zoology: Investigating the Animal World, page 415 ↗,
- Gavials (or gharials) are found only on the northern Indian subcontinent, where most are riverine, being best adapted to calmer areas in deep fast-flowing rivers.
- 2002, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arnould, Tiiu Ojasoo (translator), Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution, [1997, Les avatars du gène: La théorie néodarwinienne de l'évolution], page 28 ↗,
- (Gavialis gangeticus) fish-eating crocodile, gharial, Indian gharial
- (any species of Gavialidae) gavialid
- French: gavial du Gange, gavial
- German: Gangesgavial, Gharial, Gavial
- Portuguese: gavial
- Russian: гавиа́л
- Spanish: gavial
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