"cayman" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "caymans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "cayman (plural caymans)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "caiman"
        }
      ],
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of caiman"
      ],
      "id": "en-cayman-en-noun-B6F9fyFf",
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          "caiman",
          "caiman#English"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "cayman"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "caymans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cayman (plural caymans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "caiman"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of caiman"
      ],
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          "caiman",
          "caiman#English"
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  ],
  "word": "cayman"
}