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