• Canadian_Cabinet
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    7 months ago

    We still colloquially call them lagartos, regardless if its a crocodile or alligator.

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      7 months ago

      Good to know! I took years of Spanish classes and my kids are in a Spanish immersion school in California, but I’ve only ever heard lagarto for smaller lizards and cocodrilo for anything resembling crocodilians

      Thanks for the info

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        7 months ago

        Yeah lagarto literally means lizard, but we use it for pretty much any type of reptilian that looks like a lizard lol