caiman. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

caiman

SYLLABICATION:	cai·man
PRONUNCIATION:	kmn
VARIANT FORMS:	also cay·man
NOUN:	Inflected forms: pl. cai·mans Any of various tropical American crocodilians of the genus Caiman and related genera, resembling and closely related to the alligators.
ETYMOLOGY:	Spanish caimán, from Carib acayuman.


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