crocodile

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɹɒkədaɪl/    美 /ˈkɹɑkədaɪl/|[ˈkʰɹɑkədaɪɫ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — The Roman poet Horace states that the excrement of the crocodile has aphrodisiac virtues.
  2. A long line or procession of people (especially children) walking together.
    — Sometimes the kids from the slap-up boys' schools in Eastbourne used to be led round in crocodiles to hand out fags and peppermint creams to the 'wounded Tommies', as they called us.
  3. A fallacious dilemma, mythically supposed to have been first used by a crocodile.
    — We have seen syllogisms, crocodiles, enthymemas, sorites, &c. explained and tried upon a boy of nine or ten years old in playful conversation[…]
  4. greedy or corrupt person (especially a politician or any public official) Philippines,figuratively
动词 v.
  1. To speak another language than Esperanto at an Esperanto-language gathering. intransitive,slang

词形变化

crocodiles plural crocodiles present,singular,third-person crocodiling participle,present crocodiled participle,past crocodiled past

词汇关系

衍生词
after a while, crocodile American crocodile Australian freshwater crocodile black crocodile Chinese crocodile lizard crocodile bird crocodile clip crocodiledom crocodilelike crocodile shear crocodile tears crocodile tegu crocodility crocoduck Cuban crocodile dwarf crocodile estuarine crocodile fish-eating crocodile freshwater crocodile in a while, crocodile Indo-Pacific crocodile Johnston's crocodile marsh crocodile Mindoro crocodile Morelet's crocodile mugger crocodile New Guinea crocodile Nile crocodile Orinoco crocodile Philippine crocodile Philippine freshwater crocodile saltwater crocodile Siamese crocodile slender-snouted crocodile swamp crocodile werecrocodile
相关词
crocodilian

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English cocodrill, cokadrill, cokedril, from Old French cocodril (modern French crocodile), from Medieval Latin cocodrillus, from Latin crocodilus, from Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos). The word was later refashioned after the Latin and Greek forms. Doublet of krokodil.
词源 2
Derived from the noun as a calque of Esperanto krokodili.
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