crocodile

Meanings

Noun

• Any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family Crocodylidae; a crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials.
• A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.
• A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.

Verb

• To speak one's native language at an Esperanto-language gathering, rather than Esperanto.

Related

Similar words

• croc

Origin

• From Middle English cocodrill, cokadrill, cokedril, from Old French cocodril (modern French crocodile), from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος. The word was later refashioned after the Latin and Greek forms. krokodil.