Gavial vs Salty - What's the difference?
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The crocodilian ; any species of the family Gavialidae.
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* 2011 , Joseph T. Springer, Dennis Holley, An Introduction to Zoology: Investigating the Animal World ,
Tasting of salt.
Containing salt.
(figuratively) Coarse, provocative, earthy; said of language.
(figuratively) Experienced, especially used to indicate a veteran of the naval services; salty dog (from salt of the sea).
Irritated, annoyed; from sharp, spicy flavor of salt.
* 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow and Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, page 61:
* 1969 , Iceberg Slim, Pimp: The Story of My Life , Holloway House Publishing, page 162:
(linguistics) Pertaining to those dialects of Catalan, spoken in the Balearic Islands and along the coast of Catalonia, that use definitive articles descended from the Latin .
As a noun gavial
is the crocodilian species: Gavialis gangeticus; any species of the family Gavialidae.As an adjective salty is
tasting of salt.gavial
English
(Gharial) (Gavialis gangeticus)Alternative forms
* gharialNoun
(en noun)page 28,
- Cuvier had begun studying the fossils of crocodiles found near Caen and Honfleur in France. (They were, in fact, gavials , fine-jawed crocodiles that are nowadays found in India).
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- Although human remains and jewelry have been found in their stomachs, gavials are not as fierce as many alligators and crocodiles.
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- Gavials' (or gharials) are found only on the northern Indian subcontinent, where most are ' riverine , being best adapted to calmer areas in deep fast-flowing rivers.
Usage notes
Technically, extending the definition to family Gavialidae results in including just one other extant species: the (false gavial) ( is often (perhaps usually) excluded from Gavialidae.Synonyms
* (Gavialis gangeticus) (fish-eating crocodile), gharial, (Indian gharial) * (any species of Gavialidae) gavialidDerived terms
* (false gavial) ()See also
* caiman * ----salty
English
Adjective
(er)- Ray and Fuzzy were salty with our unhip no-playing piano player, because she broke time on the piano so bad that the strings yelled whoa to the hammers.
- I want to beg your pardon for making you salty that night.