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  • noun Plural form of cayuco.

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Examples

  • They arrived in thirty- to forty-foot-long cayucos, dilapidated, open wooden fishing boats long past their working lives.

    Shock of Gray Ted C. Fishman 2010

  • Vegetation consists primarily of bayahonda (Prosopis juliflora), cambrón (Acacia macracantha), guayacán (Guaiacum officinale), almácigo (Bursera simarouba), baitoa (Phyllostylon brasiliensis), and spiny shrubs (cactáceas) such as the guazábara (Cylindropuntia caribaea), cayucos (Pilosocereus polygonus), melón espinoso (Melocactus lemairei), alpargata (Opuntia moniliformes) and bombillito (Neomammillaria prolifera).

    Enriquillo wetlands 2008

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