"cayman" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "word": "caiman"
        }
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          "ref": "1862, The Quiver, volumes 1-6, page 451:",
          "text": "We were about to follow this advice, when another man, more rash than his comrades, said, 'I'm not afraid of caymans,' and spurred his horse into the stream.",
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        {
          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "With a dull, heavy splash an occasional cayman plunged in from the bank.",
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        {
          "ref": "1996, Dale Alan Olsen, editor, Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest, page 326:",
          "text": "Surely, when this animal comes, it is to eat us. Thus, we have to sing this hoa. This is how I learned this hoa for caymans. One sings this so he won't be eaten by the caymans.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Harry S. Pariser, Explore Puerto Rico, page 157:",
          "text": "Laguna Tortuguero has some 2,000 caimanes (caymans), a type of alligator indigenous to Central and S America.",
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        "Alternative spelling of caiman"
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  "word": "cayman"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1862, The Quiver, volumes 1-6, page 451:",
          "text": "We were about to follow this advice, when another man, more rash than his comrades, said, 'I'm not afraid of caymans,' and spurred his horse into the stream.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:",
          "text": "With a dull, heavy splash an occasional cayman plunged in from the bank.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, Dale Alan Olsen, editor, Music of the Warao of Venezuela: Song People of the Rain Forest, page 326:",
          "text": "Surely, when this animal comes, it is to eat us. Thus, we have to sing this hoa. This is how I learned this hoa for caymans. One sings this so he won't be eaten by the caymans.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Harry S. Pariser, Explore Puerto Rico, page 157:",
          "text": "Laguna Tortuguero has some 2,000 caimanes (caymans), a type of alligator indigenous to Central and S America.",
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        }
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        "Alternative spelling of caiman"
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