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gharial
"A large fish-eating crocodile with a long, narrow snout that widens at the nostrils, native to the Indian subcontinent", Early 19th century: from Hindi
ghaṛiyāl
. The spelling
gavial
(from French) is an alteration probably due to scribal error.