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  • noun Plural form of gavial.

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Examples

  • These rivers also support other typical riverine fauna such as otters, waterbirds, false gavials, crocodiles, and monitor lizards.

    Borneo peat swamp forests 2008

  • Crocodilians, Gryposuchus, and the South American gavials.

    Archive 2006-09-01 Darren Naish 2006

  • Crocodilians, Gryposuchus, and the South American gavials.

    Even more recently extinct, island dwelling crocodilians Darren Naish 2006

  • Driven before the advancing flames was a huge herd of alligators and crocodiles, gavials and other toothed denizens of the shallow stream.

    The Time of the Transference Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987

  • Papua New Guinea's program offers one of the best hopes for saving all endangered crocodiles, alligators, caimans, and gavials.

    3 Conclusions 1983

  • The reptiles which attacked the swimmers can hardly have been gavials, which feed exclusively on fish.

    Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975

  • On Mr. Darwin's hypothesis it could only have been developed where useful, therefore not in the gavials (!) which feed on fish, but which yet retain, as we might expect, this, in them superfluous but harmless formation.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • That such a harmless structure _need not_ be removed any Darwinian must confess, since a structure exists in both the crocodiles and gavials, which enables the former to breathe themselves while drowning the prey which they hold in their mouths.

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • Some had yellow eyes, some had ears like arrows, some had noses like gavials.

    The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli

  • It was not until thirty years later, in his memoir on the anatomy of the gavials, that he began the series of his works bearing on the question of species.

    Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work 1872

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