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noun, plural cai·mans.
any of several tropical American crocodilians of the genus Caiman and allied genera: some are endangered.
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caiman
1570s, from Port. or Sp. caiman, from a Carib word, or perhaps from a Congo African word applied to the reptiles in the new world by African slaves. "The name appears to be one of those like anaconda and bom, boma, which the Portuguese or Spaniards very early caught up in one part of the world, and naturalized
EXPANDin another." [OED]
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