ORDER CROCODILIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Crocodilia mean? 

• ORDER CROCODILIA (noun)
  The noun ORDER CROCODILIA has 1 sense:

1. crocodiles; alligators; caimans; gavials

  Familiarity information: ORDER CROCODILIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER CROCODILIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Crocodiles; alligators; caimans; gavials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Crocodilia; Crocodylia; order Crocodilia; order Crocodylia

Hypernyms ("order Crocodilia" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Crocodilia"):

crocodilian; crocodilian reptile (extant archosaurian reptile)

Crocodylidae; family Crocodylidae (true crocodiles)

Alligatoridae; family Alligatoridae (alligators; caimans)

family Gavialidae; Gavialidae (gavials)

Holonyms ("order Crocodilia" is a member of...):

Archosauria; subclass Archosauria (a large subclass of diapsid reptiles including: crocodiles; alligators; dinosaurs; pterosaurs; plesiosaurs; ichthyosaurs; thecodonts)