 
      
      The Mississippi alligator grows to a length of fourteen or fifteen feet, inhabiting lakes, rivers, and…
 
      
      "Any member of the family Alligatoridæ, or some American member of the Crocodilidæ."-Whitney,…
 
      
      "Skull of a member of the family Alligatoridæ, or some American member of the Crocodilidæ."-Whitney,…