Any of several tropical American crocodilians of the genus Caiman.
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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