cayman

cayman (plural caymans)

1. Alternative spelling of caiman
   • 1862, The Quiver, volumes 1-6, page 451:

     We were about to follow this advice, when another man, more rash than his comrades, said, 'I'm not afraid of caymans,' and spurred his horse into the stream.

   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     With a dull, heavy splash an occasional cayman plunged in from the bank.

   • 1996, Dale Alan Olsen, editor, Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest‎, page 326:

     Surely, when this animal comes, it is to eat us. Thus, we have to sing this hoa. This is how I learned this hoa for caymans. One sings this so he won't be eaten by the caymans.

   • 2002, Harry S. Pariser, Explore Puerto Rico‎, page 157:

     Laguna Tortuguero has some 2,000 caimanes (caymans), a type of alligator indigenous to Central and S America.

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