Any of several tropical American crocodilians of the genus Caiman.
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Examples for "cayman "
1 Near the first of these we saw a small cayman , a jacare-tinga.
2 The red ape, turtle and cayman are among the chief totems.
3 With a dull, heavy splash an occasional cayman plunged in from the bank.
4 It was a jacare-tinga or small cayman about five feet long.
5 A dead cayman floated down-stream, with a black vulture devouring it.
1 And at that point, the caiman then bit into the snake, he said.
2 Once in the river, the caiman seemed to gain fresh vigour.
3 Or you could get a Burmese python, caiman , crocodile, iguana .
4 Kerans started to go back for him, the caiman 's head pivoting towards them.
5 Neither tortoise nor caiman paid any attention to their presence, but fought on pertinaciously.
6 The other animal was a small caiman or alligator.
7 The black caiman and constrictors must hear his passage as the thrashes of something wounded.
8 The strength of the caiman at length prevailed.
9 I think eventually the anaconda ran out of oxygen and had to let go of the caiman .
10 A small caiman scurried up the banks.
11 The anaconda just kept strangling the caiman .
12 A large caiman bringing up the rear spotted Kerans waist-deep among the horse-tails and veered towards him, its eyes steadying.
13 Gilton kept everyone busy with a roster of piranha fishing, jungle hikes and caiman - trapping , blinding them with torches before lassoing them.
14 No doubt the caiman had been attempting to plunder the new-laid eggs of the tortoise, and the latter had detected him in the act.
15 The largest, attaining an enormous bulk and a length of 20 ft., is the C. niger, the jacare-assu or large caiman of the Amazons.
16 Kerans pointed to a big caiman thrashing about in a circle of boathooks, and said to Big Caesar: "What's on the menu tonight- roast alligator?"
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