cayman

[ key-muhn ]

noun

, plural cay·mans.

1. a variant of caiman.

cayman

/ ˈkeɪmən /

noun

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)

Word History and Origins

Origin of cayman¹

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

Example Sentences

The Cayman Islands Court of Appeal a few months later overturned the ruling.

From Washington Blade

The British Virgin Islands, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Belize, and Switzerland.

From The Daily Beast

Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign toasted its top donors Wednesday aboard a 150-foot yacht flying the flag of the Cayman Islands.

From The Daily Beast

Biggest response: "He holds as much as $8 million in accounts in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying taxes on it."

From The Daily Beast

He railed about how the law was being obstructed in Guantánamo Bay and about money laundering in the Cayman Islands and in London.

From The Daily Beast

For a long time he had set his heart on catching a cayman, a kind of alligator that is found in the rivers of Guiana.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

Then the swift vessel, turning its prow toward Cayman's Cove, began to make toward the open sea.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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