Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as gharrial and gavial.

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Examples

  • If I were to have a mounted head on my wall (as opposed to, say, the casts of a saber tooth tiger or garial or camarasaurus or ankylosaurus that I do have) - but if I were to have a stuffed head of a modernday animal, I would want one of these.

    Neil Gaiman owns a Jackalope frankwu 2009

  • At Kunch we saw four alligators sleeping in the river, looking at a distance like logs of wood, all of the short-nosed or mugger kind, dreaded by man and beast; I saw none of the sharp-shouted (or garial), so common on the Ganges, where their long bills, with a garniture of teeth and prominent eyes peeping out of the water, remind one of geological lectures and visions of _Ichthyosauri.

    Himalayan Journals — Complete 1864

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