chinese alligator

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   small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits

   SynonymsAlligator sinensis

   Broaderalligator

Questions about chinese alligator

What does chinese alligator mean?

chinese alligator means "small alligator of the Yangtze valley of China having unwebbed digits".

What is another word for chinese alligator?

Close synonyms include Alligator sinensis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chinese alligator a common word?

chinese alligator is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.