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caymans

  • plural
    of cayman.
    cayman
    noun
    a variant of caiman.

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Like Weisberger noted, there are also caymans and owls, and a watchful eye must always be kept out for the mosquitoes on the course.

From Golf Digest ● Aug. 9, 2016

Once or twice in the darkness the vessel ran aground, and the fear of lurking caymans made them careful how they moved to get her off.

From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang

There was also danger from the caymans, which at that period of the year are most dangerous, and most frequently attack small boats.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 30 of 55 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXX, 1640 by Antonio Alvarez de Abreu

As one cayman called another answered; and although caymans are not very common anywhere, that night you would have thought that the world was full of them.

From The Animal Story Book by Various

He had streams to ford, dark with caymans, and he had to traverse woods where the jaguars howled.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury

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