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Meanings of cayman in English
Usage of cayman in English
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.
6
The natives at once despise and fear the great cayman.
7
In fact, the Indian meant it as the cayman's dinner-bell.
8
He said it was to let the cayman hear that something was going on.
9
A second shot from Benito failed to stop the cayman.
10
The cayman, not liking the morsel, looked about for something more to his taste.
11
They could never afterwards be persuaded to touch a cayman.
12
Suddenly we were startled with the cry of A cayman!
13
She moved out and the cayman stayed, he said.
14
We had now no more hopes of taking a cayman till the return of night.
15
The second night's attempt upon the cayman was a repetition of the first, quite unsuccessful.
16
The species was the large cayman, the Jacaré-uassú of the Amazonian Indians (Jacare nigra).
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