cayman

[ key-muhn ]

noun,plural cay·mans.
  1. a variant of caiman.

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How to use cayman in a sentence

  • I had come above three hundred miles on purpose to get a cayman uninjured, and not to carry back a mutilated specimen.

    Wanderings in South America | Charles Waterton
  • Then the swift vessel, turning its prow toward cayman's Cove, began to make toward the open sea.

  • The cayman islands, in that neighborhood, are the summit of mountains bordering this deep valley at the bottom of the sea.

  • The cayman now seemed to have recovered from his surprise and plunged furiously, and lashed the sand with his long tail.

British Dictionary definitions for cayman

cayman

caiman

/ (ˈkeɪmən) /


nounplural -mans
  1. any tropical American crocodilian of the genus Caiman and related genera, similar to alligators but with a more heavily armoured belly: family Alligatoridae (alligators, etc)

Origin of cayman

1
C16: from Spanish caimán, from Carib cayman, probably of African origin

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