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GAVIAL
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Dictionary entry overview: What does gavial mean?
• GAVIAL (noun)
The noun GAVIAL has 1 sense:
1. large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout
Familiarity information: GAVIAL used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large fish-eating Indian crocodilian with a long slender snout
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
gavial; Gavialis gangeticus
Hypernyms ("gavial" is a kind of...):
crocodilian; crocodilian reptile (extant archosaurian reptile)
Holonyms ("gavial" is a member of...):
Gavialis; genus Gavialis (type genus of the Gavialidae)
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