alligator – English noun declension

English noun forms of alligator

Noun: alligator
Singularalligator
Pluralalligators

Sample Sentences

  • 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.
  • Alligators and crocodiles look extremely alike.
  • The main distinguishing feature is the teeth. In a crocodile the teeth in its upper and lower jaws are in line, but in an alligator, when its mouth is shut, the upper teeth lie outside the lower ones. [2002, Maurice Burton, Robert Burton, International Wildlife Encyclopedia, page 38:]
  • In 1967, the federal government declared alligators to be an Endangered Species and prohibited gator hunting and the sale of hides. The alligator responded and by the mid-1970s, the reptile numbers soared to an estimated half-million. [2007, Bernie McGovern, editor, Florida Almanac: 2007-2008, 17th edition, page 243:]
  • They ran to the village screaming at the top of their lungs that an alligator was coming after them. Several of the men in Alimacani retrieved from a storehouse the tool they used to catch alligators. [2012, Thomas N. Tozer, Pierre's Journey to Florida: Diary of a Young Huguenot in the Sixteenth Century, unnumbered page:]
  • Alligators were very numerous, in fact the harbour was infested by them. [1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 88:]

Etymology

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2. From early Modern English alligater, alligarta, aligarto, alegarto, alagarto, from Spanish el lagarto (“the lizard”), from Latin lacertus (“lizard”), modern spelling possibly influenced by the unrelated Latin alligator (“one who binds”). See: Latin Nouns 'lacertus', Latin Nouns 'alligator'.

Verbs referencing "alligator"

Danish Nouns alligator, Dutch Nouns alligator, French Nouns alligator, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns alligator, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns alligator, German Nouns Alligator, Polish Nouns aligator, Finnish Nouns alligaattori, Italian Nouns alligatore, Portuguese Nouns aligátor, Spanish Nouns aligátor, Catalan Nouns al·ligàtor, Irish Nouns ailigéadar, Ukrainian Nouns алігатор.