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[โ€“] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] NielsBohron@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago

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