alligator

Etymology 1
From early Modern English, , , , , from , from , modern spelling possibly influenced by the unrelated 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) Either of two species of large amphibious reptile,  or, in the genus Alligator within order , which have sharp teeth and very strong jaws and are native to the Americas and China, respectively.
 * All you could see of the alligator were two eyes above the water, then suddenly it snatched up and caught the poor bird with strong jaws full of sharp teeth.
 * 1)  A member of the family, which includes the caimans.
 * 2)  A dwarf crocodile
 * 3)  A crocodile of any species.
 * 4) Any of various machines with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator.
 * 5)  A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
 * 6)  A rock breaker.
 * 7)  A kind of job press.
 * 8) Any of various vehicles that have relatively long, low noses in front of a cab or other, usually windowed, structure.
 * 1)  A form of squeezer for the puddle ball.
 * 2)  A rock breaker.
 * 3)  A kind of job press.
 * 4) Any of various vehicles that have relatively long, low noses in front of a cab or other, usually windowed, structure.

Coordinate terms

 * , ; croc, crocodile; gavial, gharial

Translations

 * Afrikaans: alligator
 * Albanian: aligator
 * Apurinã: kayokuru
 * Arabic:, تِمْسَاح أَمْرِيكِيّ, تِمْسَاح اِسْتِوَائِيّ,
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: alligator,
 * Basque: aligatore
 * Belarusian: аліга́тар
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: alligator
 * Chamicuro: kashyuna
 * Cherokee: ᏧᎳᏍᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien: 覓仔
 * Mandarin: 美洲鱷,
 * Cornish: aligator
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: aligatoro
 * Estonian: alligaator
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Georgian: ალიგატორი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian: alligator
 * Irish: ailigéadar
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kashubian: aligatór
 * Kazakh: аллигатор
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:, 앨리게이터
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Lao:
 * Latin: alligator
 * Latvian: aligators
 * Lithuanian:
 * Lokono: kaikuti
 * Macedonian: алигатор
 * Malay:
 * Maori: arikeita
 * Mbyá Guaraní: jakare
 * Mongolian:
 * Navajo: bitseeʼ yee adiłhałii
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: alligator
 * Old Tupi: îakaré
 * Ottoman Turkish: تمساح, نهنگ
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Punjabi: ਮਗਰਮੱਛ
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: алигатор
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swahili: aligatori, aligeita
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: kayman, kaiman, aligeytor
 * Tajik: тимсоҳ
 * Tatar: аллигатор
 * Thai:, , แอลลิเกเตอร์, จระเข้ตีนเป็ด
 * Tok Pisin: pukpuk
 * Tswana:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian:
 * Umbundu: ongandu
 * Urdu: گھڑیال, مگر, شیر آبی
 * Uyghur: تىمساھ
 * Uzbek: ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Wapishana: atoru
 * Welsh: aligator
 * Yiddish: אַליגאַטאָר
 * Zazaki: timsah

Verb

 * 1)  To crack in a pattern resembling an alligator's skin.

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  One who binds or ties.

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * , crocodilian of the genus Alligator

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  animal

Noun

 * 1) one who ties or binds

Etymology 2
From, a fusion of , from , unrelated to the sense above.

Etymology
From, via.

Etymology
From, via.

Noun

 * 1)  (reptile)

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  alligator