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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

“Oh, I care not for caymans; I would fight with a dozen of them!” was the answer given, we were told.

From A Voyage round the World A book for boys by William Henry Giles Kingston

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

Huge caymans abound in the river, and lie like logs of wood at the foot of the cataracts or rapids, watching stealthily to catch and swallow whatever the fierce current may bring down to them.

From The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America by William Henry Giles Kingston

"His Excellency sends a spy to feed the caymans."

From Swift and Sure by Herbert Strang

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