What (who) is Alligator - definition
GENUS OF LARGE REPTILES
Alligators; Aligator; Differences between alligators and crocodiles; Differences between crocodiles and alligators; Reproductive behavior of alligators; Evolution of alligators
![An 1854 watercolor painting of an alligator from the [[Cayman Islands]] by Jacques Burkhardt.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Alligator (Cayman Islands?, 1854).jpg?width=200 "An 1854 watercolor painting of an alligator from the [[Cayman Islands]] by Jacques Burkhardt.")
![Alligator in the [[Everglades National Park]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Florida-Everglades National Park-3.jpg?width=200 "Alligator in the [[Everglades National Park]]")
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Alligator
A person who makes allegations.
There's been allegations made, and we need to find out who the alligator is.
There's been allegations made, and we need to find out who the alligator is.
Alligator
·noun a rock breaker.
II. Alligator ·noun a form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
III. Alligator ·noun a kind of job press, called also alligator press.
IV. Alligator ·noun Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator.
V. Alligator ·noun 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.
alligator
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1. a large semiaquatic reptile similar to a crocodile but with a broader and shorter head, native to the Americas and China. [Genus Alligator: two species.]
2. the skin of the alligator.
Origin
C16: from Sp. el lagarto 'the lizard'.
Wikipedia
Alligator
An alligator, or just gator, is a large reptile in the Crocodilia order in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. The two extant species are the American alligator (A. mississippiensis) and the Chinese alligator (A. sinensis). Additionally, several extinct species of alligator are known from fossil remains. Alligators first appeared during the Oligocene epoch about 37 million years ago.
The name "alligator" is probably an anglicized form of el lagarto, the Spanish term for "the lizard", which early Spanish explorers and settlers in Florida called the alligator. Later English spellings of the name included allagarta and alagarto.
Pronunciation examples for Alligator
1. say, an alligator; we have an alligator.
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2. an alligator.
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3. The alligator.
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4. You're an alligator.
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5. or an alligator.
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Examples of use of Alligator
1. Once the alligator bites the hook, a hunter can slowly reel the alligator in and shoot it.
2. Environmentalists agree the alligator is thriving.
3. He‘d left Candy Maycock in the swamp off Alligator Alley.
4. Gross also believed the alligator was probably a pet.
5. Petersburg also was blamed on an alligator, authorities said.