crocodiles
Meaning of crocodiles
- a large predatory semiaquatic reptile with long jaws, long tail, short legs, and a horny textured skin.
- a line of schoolchildren walking in pairs.
Middle English cocodrille, cokadrill, from Old French cocodrille, via medieval Latin from Latin crocodilus, from Greek krokodilos ‘worm of the stones’, from krokē ‘pebble’ + drilos ‘worm’. The spelling was changed in the 16th century to conform with the Latin and Greek forms.
Information about crocodiles
- It is a name.
- The singular form of crocodiles is: crocodile.
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Hyphenation of crocodiles
croc-o-diles
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- crocodiles is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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