Definitions for caimans

caimans cai·man

Spelling: [key-muh n]
IPA: /ˈkeɪ mən/

Caimans is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 188 anagrams from letters in caimans (aacimns).

Definitions for caimans

noun

  1. any of several tropical American crocodilians of the genus Caiman and allied genera: some are endangered.

Origin of caimans

1570-80; Spanish caimán Carib

Examples for caimans

The caiman offers a range of option packages, from bristling-with-machine-guns, to monster-truck-field-hospital.

Neither tortoise nor caiman paid any attention to their presence, but fought on pertinaciously.

There is another means which the Indians use to capture the caiman.

No doubt the caiman had been attempting to plunder the new-laid eggs of the tortoise, and the latter had detected him in the act.

The jaguar, with his pliable paws and sharp subtle claws, is to them a more dreaded assailant than the crocodile or caiman.

There are natives who dare dive for the caiman and rip it up.

The local name "caiman" refers to both Crocodylus and to caiman, for, in general, the natives do not distinguish between the two.

Many children of poor negro women become a prey to the caiman in this locality.

Ours is the caiman model, a 6x6 behemoth that weighs in at over 15 tons and makes Humvees shrivel up with feelings of inadequacy.

Peters (1954:10) refuted Gadow's record on the basis that Gadow's collections contained no specimens of caiman.

Word Value for caimans
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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