werecrocodile

noun

werecrocodile

noun

Etymology From were- + crocodile.

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Fiction, Literature, Media, Publishing 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 shape2005, Kameron Franklin, Maiden of Pain: The Priests, Wizards of the Coast, →ISBN:
1 more example
  • 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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