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Cayman

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Variant of caiman.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of caiman.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The south America alligator. See alligator.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. 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.

n. A gobioid fish, Dormitator maculatus, found in great abundance on both coasts of America.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. a semiaquatic reptile of Central and South America that resembles an alligator but has a more heavily armored belly

Word Usage

"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."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

crocodilian crocodilian reptile

Variant

alligator caiman

Hyponym

caiman sclerops spectacled caiman

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Daman Damon Haman Lehmann Philemon Raman Xiamen bayman daemon foramen

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