crocodilian
kro kuh dil yuhn
- n extant archosaurian reptile
- Given the champ's current reputation, there is a crocodilian element to his plaint, "I am probably better known in Singapore than in the United States.
- The crocodiles may have been powerful enough to pose a threat to the dinosaurs, as dinosaur bones with crocodilian bite marks have recently been discovered at Big Bend.
- Western businessmen may laugh, but such crocodilian cunning has allowed Houphouet to weld 60 backward tribes into one of Black Africa's most prosperous countriesand its most .