Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of caiman.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name applied popularly to the alligators of the West Indies and South America, but properly only to Crocodilus or Caiman palpebrosus and C. trigonatus (Cuvier). See alligator.
- n. A gobioid fish, Dormitator maculatus, found in great abundance on both coasts of America. It lives in fresh and brackish water, ranges from South Carolina, through the West Indies, to Pará, Cape San Lucas and Panama, and is much used for food. See
sleeper , 8 .
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of caiman.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The south America alligator. See alligator.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly
Examples
“The second night's attempt upon the cayman was a repetition of the first, quite unsuccessful.”
“The animal called the cayman, at Batabano, died on the way, and was not brought to us, so that we could make no comparison of the two species.”
“On mud banks we saw the crocodile, "cayman" they call it.”
“cayman" of the Spanish Americans; there is the spectacled alligator, a southern species, so called from a pair of rings around its eyes having”
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“The cayman, living in captivity in the oppressive fug of Peter's apartment, is tiny, just half the size of Margaux's arm.”
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“One of these pets is a cayman, "part alligator, part crocodile".”
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“People know that the top 1% is lawyered up, and working the system with swiss bank and cayman island accounts.”
“Cheney sat back and chewed the events of the day, much as a hooded-eyed cayman chews tapirs he's dragged from the Amazon River.”
“I guess we'll see what choices are made if/when the "fight of [Edwards '] life" necessitates him dipping into his cayman island hedge fund earnings to sustain a losing campaign.”
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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To Marji
compote, baker, pie, traveller, nurse, mother hen, executive, berkeley, seattle, friend, denver, punctilious and 55 more...
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my pet's names
gryphon, dahlia, flower, bulldozer, nibbles, weiner, bruiser, cayman, agent orange, dinner, lyle lovett, phyllis diller and 7 more...
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