crocodile

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A large reptile with a long body, powerful jaws, and sharp teeth that lives in and near rivers in hot countries.

   A huge crocodile lay still on the riverbank in the sun.

2. 2
   noun

   A long line of people, especially schoolchildren, walking two by two.

   The class walked to the museum in a neat crocodile.

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

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