Alligator

See also: alligator and al·ligàtor

Translingual

Alligator mississippiensis (the American alligator)

Etymology

a. 1807, from English alligator, from early Modern English alligater, alligarta, aligarto, alegarto, alagarto, from Spanish el (“the”) + lagarto (“lizard”), from Latin lacertus (“lizard”), modern spelling possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin alligator (“one who binds”)

Proper noun

Alligator m

A taxonomic genus within the family Alligatoridae – the alligators.

Hypernyms

(genus): Reptilia - class, Diapsida - subclass, Archosauromorpha - infraclass, Archosauria - division, Crurotarsi - subdivision, Crocodylomorpha - superorder, Crocodilia - order, Eusuchia - suborder, Alligatoridae - family, Alligatorinae - subfamily

Hyponyms

(genus): Alligator mississippiensis - type species; Alligator sinensis - other extant species; †Alligator luicus - selected extinct species; for others see Alligator at Fossilworks

References

Alligator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Alligator on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Alligator on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Alligator at Fossilworks

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Noun

Alligator m (genitive Alligators, plural Alligatoren)

alligator (animal)

Declension

Declension of Alligator

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Alligator	die	Alligatoren
genitive	eines	des	Alligators	der	Alligatoren
dative	einem	dem	Alligator	den	Alligatoren
accusative	einen	den	Alligator	die	Alligatoren