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werecrocodile en · NOUN

Etymology

From were- + crocodile.

Meanings

1. A shapeshifter who can assume the form of a crocodile.
   • Werecrocodile legends are quire common wherever crocodiles are found. 2000, Rosalyn Greene, The Magic of Shapeshifting, Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, page 77:
   • As though responding to some unseen signal, one of the submerged werecrocodiles reared up in a spray of water and transformed into its human shape 2005, Kameron Franklin, Maiden of Pain: The Priests, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:
   • The werecrocodile laughed at him, the feral grin of a predator displaying nightmarish fangs. 2012, Ilona Andrews, “Retribution Clause”, in P. N. Elrod, editor, Hex Appeal, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 32:

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