Alligator gar
a large, heavily scaled fish, lepisosteus spatula, with an elongated body and long snout, found mainly in shallow weedy fresh water in the southeastern u.s.
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heavy shears for cutting metal slabs.
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alligator skin alligator skin n. see ichthyosis. historical examples the wallet was evidently an expensive one: alligator skin lined with russian leather. the carter girls nell speed it looks to me like alligator skin was going out of fashion. the jack-knife man ellis parker butler a little tree with alligator skin bark grows north and […]
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a large american snapping turtle, macroclemys temmincki, having three prominent ridges on its sh-ll and a wormlike process on the floor of the mouth used to attract prey. historical examples the alligator snapping turtle (macroclemys) is probably the most aquatic fresh-water turtle in the united states. north american recent soft-sh-lled turtles (family trionychidae) robert g. […]