Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gobioid fish, Dormitator maculatus, found in great abundance on both coasts of America.
- noun 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 .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The south America alligator. See
alligator .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
caiman .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly
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Examples
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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.
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The second night's attempt upon the cayman was a repetition of the first, quite unsuccessful.
Wanderings in South America Charles Waterton 1823
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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.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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On mud banks we saw the crocodile, "cayman" they call it.
1492, 1922
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On mud banks we saw the crocodile, "cayman" they call it.
1492 Mary Johnston 1903
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"cayman" of the Spanish Americans; there is the spectacled alligator, a southern species, so called from a pair of rings around its eyes having
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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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.
Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011
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One of these pets is a cayman, "part alligator, part crocodile".
Tiger, Tiger: What is the point of reading this memoir of abuse? 2011
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People know that the top 1% is lawyered up, and working the system with swiss bank and cayman island accounts.
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