gharial的词源

英文词源

gharial

"A large fish-eating crocodile with a long, narrow snout that widens at the nostrils, native to the Indian subcontinent", Early 19th century: from Hindi ghaṛiyāl. The spelling gavial (from French) is an alteration probably due to scribal error.

中文词源

gharial：食鱼鳄

来自印度语。

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