cayman

CEFRB2

/kˈeɪmən/

noun

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01
noun
A small crocodile-like reptile from Central and South America.
02
noun
Extra detail
Of or related to the Cayman Islands, understood geographically or politically.

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Sits at B2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meaning

Synonym of Cayman Islands: Three islands constituting an overseas territory of the United Kingdom in the Caribbean Sea.

In context

With a dull, heavy splash an occasional cayman plunged in from the bank.
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.
Laguna Tortuguero has some 2,000 caimanes (caymans), a type of alligator indigenous to Central and S America.

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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.
1862, The Quiver, volumes 1-6, page 451
With a dull, heavy splash an occasional cayman plunged in from the bank.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
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.
1996, Dale Alan Olsen, editor, Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest, page 326
Laguna Tortuguero has some 2,000 caimanes (caymans), a type of alligator indigenous to Central and S America.
2002, Harry S. Pariser, Explore Puerto Rico, page 157

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