Alligator is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALLIGATOR in dictionary:

VERB:
• crack and acquire the appearance of alligator hide, as from weathering or improper application; of paint and varnishes
NOUN:
• a reptile of a mainly American family related to the crocodile but with a shorter, broader snout and non-protruding teeth
• the skin of the alligator or material resembling it.
• a large semiaquatic reptile similar to a crocodile but with a broader and shorter head, native to the Americas and China.
• reptile of the crocodile family, found in the southern US and China
• 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.
• Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator
• a form of squeezer for the puddle ball
• a rock breaker
• a kind of job press, called also alligator press.
• leather made from alligator\'s hide
• either of two amphibious reptiles related to crocodiles but with shorter broader snouts
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• either of two crocodilians (Alligator mississippiensis of the southeastern United States and A. sinensis of China) having broad heads not tapering to the snout and a special pocket in the upper jaw for reception of the enlarged lower fourth tooth; crocodilian

Words related to ALLIGATOR

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Words that contain ALLIGATOR

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How to use ALLIGATOR in a sentence

• Oh, I know how grateful thou canst be! The other animals have told me that! ALLIGATOR.
• Frogs sit, and, as far as I know, every reptile, be it lizard, crocodile, alligator, or tortoise, lays its body on the ground when not actually carrying it.
• The alligator agreed, so the boy got on its back and was taken across the water.
• And after this encounter with the alligator they looked upon me as a very great and powerful personage indeed.
• The old woman was right down glad to see me, and she cried like an alligator, when she heard my story.
• Old alligator rolled off his perch and started for me.
• The men now peeped at it and all agreed that it was an alligator.
• The people in the next room were beginning to get restless, and to talk in low tones of their crops and the weather, and the big alligator caught near the hotel.
• Tall weeds and long frames with teeth in them, which gave them the appearance of huge alligator mouths yawning from the dusk to snap me, pressed close on each side.
• When she heard me speak she jumped, and her eyes got as big as alligator pears.
• The range of the alligator in North America does not extend to Yucatan, hence the crocodile, which does occur there, is taken as the original of all these figures.
• There is nothing in the latter that would distinguish it from the alligator.
• The Buffalo and the Horned Owl clans seem now to be extinct in Florida, and I am not altogether sure that the Alligator clan also has not disappeared.
• Now it chanced that in this river there lived a great big Alligator, who, being also very hungry, would have been extremely glad to eat the Jackal.
• Sluggish on land, the alligator is very agile in its element.
• Paul had snug quarters and spent much of his time feeding the red birds and playing with his alligator.
• They are much quicker and more savage than the North American alligator.
• Jack plainly saw the bleeding hole before the alligator threw up his huge tail, slapped the water with a crack like thunder, and dived.
• In the meantime Buck was engaged in a terrible struggle with the alligator which had seized the pony.
• With that she threw a stone at the nearest alligator.
• There was a thrashing and upheaval and the Indian threw a half-grown alligator upon the bank and dispatched it with a blow from his camp ax.
• One day he was obliged to kneel on the broad back of an alligator who tried to bite off his foot.
• Plunging in I reached the opposite shore just in time to see the huge jaws of the alligator extended close above the spot where I had quitted the water.
• I discovered it to be a dead log after a confused interval during which I vaguely believed myself to have been swallowed by an alligator.
• All the others were carried safely over, and Aponitolau, who was left on the bank alone, shouted as if crazy until Dumalawi sent another alligator to carry him across.
• There were many lakes, near one of which our men saw a creature seven feet long, which he supposed to be an alligator, and admired its size and strange shape.
• The Australian alligator, as it is usually called, is a true crocodile, identical, according to Mr.
• But, in another minute, along came a policeman dog, and with his club he made that alligator run away back to the swamp where he belonged.
• When he came back, the alligator was climbing into his boat to get the fish he had caught.

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