Crocodile vs. Octopus

Crocodilenoun

Any of the predatory amphibious reptiles of the family Crocodylidae; (loosely) a crocodilian, any species of the order Crocodilia, which also includes the alligators, caimans and gavials.

Crocodilenoun

A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.

Crocodilenoun

(logic) A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.

Crocodileverb

(intransitive) To speak one's native language at an Esperanto-language gathering, rather than Esperanto.

Crocodilenoun

A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in the sand, are hatched by the sun's heat. The best known species is that of the Nile (Crocodilus vulgaris, or Crocodilus Niloticus). The Florida crocodile (Crocodilus Americanus) is much less common than the alligator and has longer jaws. The name is also sometimes applied to the species of other related genera, as the gavial and the alligator.

Crocodilenoun

A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.

Crocodilenoun

large voracious aquatic reptile having a long snout with massive jaws and sharp teeth and a body covered with bony plates; of sluggish tropical waters

Crocodile

Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia. The term crocodile is sometimes used even more loosely to include all extant members of the order Crocodilia, which includes the alligators and caimans (family Alligatoridae), the gharial and false gharial (family Gavialidae), and all other living and fossil Crocodylomorpha.

Octopusnoun

Any of several marine molluscs/mollusks, of the family Octopodidae, having no internal or external protective shell or bone (unlike the nautilus, squid or cuttlefish) and eight arms each covered with suckers.

Octopusnoun

(uncountable) The flesh of these marine molluscs eaten as food.

Octopusnoun

An organization that has many powerful branches controlled from the centre.

Octopusnoun

A genus of eight-armed cephalopods, including numerous species, some of them of large size. See Devilfish.

Octopusnoun

Any member of the genus Octopus.

Octopusnoun

Something resembling an octopus in having numerous controlling arms or branches that reach widely and influence many activities; - used mostly of organizations, such as diversified corporations.

Octopusnoun

tentacles of octopus prepared as food

Octopusnoun

bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles

Octopus

Octopus (pl. octopuses, see below for variants) are soft-bodied, eight-limbed molluscs of the order Octopoda (, ok-TOP-ə-də).