Parameter crocodile. Properly Crocodilus porosus, the estuary crocodile. A very large house-lizard is called sometimes (house crocodile); and the description 'land crocodile' is given to 'samsengs' or roughs, and in the eastern islands of the archipelago to the dragon-like monitor, Varanus komodoensis. Proverbially the crocodile is a symbol of pitiless greed [87358205287df542b840e241de717921]