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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the subfamily Caimaninae — the caimans.

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Examples

  • The Caiman is a look behind the scenes of the Italian moviemaking industry and its political stage show, suggesting that there is little difference.

    GreenCine Daily: PIFF Dispatch. 4. 2007

  • He recalled Caiman's bitterness and contempt when they had seen the military officers on the Earth shuttle.

    The Grand Wheel Bayley, Barrington J. 1977

  • It follows a transmuted lizard man called Caiman and his lady friend Nikaido as they traverse the dystopian nightmare that is The Hole, searching for the sorcerer responsible for Caiman's monstrous visage (avec obligatory amnesia).

    Anime Nano! 2010

  • The Caiman is a look behind the scenes of the Italian moviemaking industry and its political stage show, suggesting that there is little difference.

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • In a dark alley, Nikaido found Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a bad case of amnesia.

    I want them all 2009

  • In 1791, Haitian rebels performed a sacred ceremony at Bois Caiman to invoke their traditional African god to liberate them from the vileness of European slavers, oppressors, murderers and torturers who always used their cruel 'mask' of God to justify their crimes.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Pat Robertson, Religious Bigot, is Demonizing the Gods of Africa 2010

  • In the estuaries small individuals of Caiman crocodylus and Crocodylus acutus have been observed.

    Area de Conservación Guanacaste, Costa Rica 2008

  • Among the reptiles, the crocodile Crocodylus acutus and the giant river turtle Podocnemis lewyana are critically endangered; more common are the bushmaster snake Lachesis muta, the caiman Caiman sclerops, the iguana Iguana iguana, the boa Boa constrictor, the tortoise Geochelone carbonaria, and the lizard Tupinambis nigropunctatus.

    Magdalena-Urabá moist forests 2008

  • Today, he is all about his most recent acquisition: Caiman crocodile boots.

    In Austin, The Perfect Cowboy Boot Fits 2010

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    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Pat Robertson, Religious Bigot, is Demonizing the Gods of Africa 2010

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