When Crocs Rule

(Crocs - Clipped form of Crocodile)

- by National Geographic Magazine

Part 1
Meaning Relations
-by Anson Lou

Pedigree (Family Tree)

Archosaur 1
(Archo (R) + saur(DS) (meaning) Ruling + Reptiles)

Avemetatarsalia 2
(meaning "bird metatarsals)

Crocodile (R) + ian (DS) + s(IS) Crocodilians (Crocs like)

Crocodilians

pterosaurs

Dinosaurs

alligator

crocodile

caiman

gharial

3
Ankylosaurus Spinosaurus Styracosaurus
Reptiles

Simosuchus

Desmatosuchus

Protosuchus

Sarcosuchus

- saurs (Anglicized forms of Latin taxonomic names) - saurus (Latinized variant of -saur )

- suchus ([SEW-ks] ) (suffix??)

Pedigree (Family Tree)

2

Avemetatarsalia
(meaning "bird metatarsals)

Crocodilians

pterosaurs

alligator

caiman

crocodile

gharial

Dinosaurs

Evolution of Crocodiles
Ancestors (the actual or hypothetical form from which an organism has developed or descended) Erpetosuchus Doswellia

Antonym

Deinosuchus Protosuchus

Descendants

Crocodiles Diet
Hypernym Herbivore
Herb (R) + I DS) + vore (DS) one that eats plant

Hypernym Carnivore
Carn (R) + I (DS) + vore (DS) one that eats flesh

Simosuchus

Desmatosuchus

Protosuchus Sarcosuchus Stomatosuchus

Hyponym

Crocodiles Habitat (Syn. Residence)

Hypernym

Habitat

Freshwater

Swamps

Marshes

Hyponym

Part 2 Semantic & Lexicological Analysis

by June Hui

Meaning Relations
Connotation
Crocodile management isnt a rocket science (hard / difficult) Crocodile ancestors radiated (developed) into a wide array of terrestrial forms. Having endured millions of years of planetary climate change, tectonic-plate musical chairs (rearrangement) and other ecological vicissitudes

Meaning Relations
Antonyms

Contradictory antonyms
predators (prey) descendants (ancestor) freshwater (saltwater) cold-blooded (warm-blooded) short-legged (long-legged)

Word formation analysis

Complex word (1)
Relocation (Re (DP) + locate (R) + tion (DS) noun complex) Allegedly (Allege (R) + ed (IS) + ly (DS) adverb complex) Threatened (Threat (R) + en (DS) + ed (IS) adjective / verb complex)

Word formation analysis

Complex word (2)
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Endangered (En (DP) + danger (R) + ed (DS) adjective complex) Neighborhood (Neighbour(R) + hood(n., DS)adjective complex) Subtropical (Sub (DP) + tropic (R) + al (DS) adjective complex)

Ecological (Ecology (R) + ical (DS) adjective complex)

Word formation analysis

Compound word
Upscale (Up (adj) +scale (n) adjective compound)

Fearsome (Fear (adj) + some (DS) complex word/ adjective

compound )

latter-day (latter (adj) + day (n) adjective hyphenated compound, endocentric in meaning)

Word formation analysis

Compound-complex word
Snaggletoothed (snaggle (adj) + tooth (n) + ed (DS) adjective compound-complex) tectonic-plate (tecton (n) + ic (DS) + plate (n) hyphenated noun compound-complex) yacht-lined (yatch (n) + line (n) + ed (DS) hyphenated adjective compound-complex)

Word formation analysis

Endocentric

Saltwater (salt (n) + water (n) endocentric noun compound, means seawater ) Freshwater (fresh (n/adj) + water (n) endocentric noun compound, means drinking water)

Word formation analysis

Conversion

- They face (n v) a new challenge to their survival - Many were killed by poachers for their hides (v n) - stuffed (n v) for museum displays

Word formation analysis

Abbreviations

Many croc species survived the massive K-T (Cretaceous-Tertiary) extinction 65 million years ago.

Conclusions

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