Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A South American alligator; a cayman.
  • noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of South American alligators.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) A cayman. See yacare.

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  • noun Alternative form of yacare.

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Examples

  • It breeds good fish; the manatus is common, people talk of fresh-water sharks, and the jacare (crocodile) is fatal to many a pig even in the village.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • It was a jacare-tinga or small cayman about five feet long.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • At the first shallow ford, as horses and dogs splashed across, an alligator, the jacare-tinga, some five feet long, floated unconcernedly among the splashing hoofs and paws; evidently at night it did not fear us.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • The ibis and plover did not pay any heed to the fish; but the black carrion vultures feasted on them in the mud; and in the pools that were not dry small alligators, the jacare-tinga, were feasting also.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • In this country they rambled through the night across the marshes and prowled along the edges of the ponds and bayous, catching the capybaras and the caymans; for these small pond caymans, the jacare-tinga, form part of their habitual food, and

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • Different members of the party caught many fish, and shot a monkey and a couple of jacare-tinga birds kin to a turkey, but the size of a fowl -- so we again had a camp of plenty.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • In another little pond a jacare-tinga showed no less anger when another of my companions approached.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • Near the first of these we saw a small cayman, a jacare-tinga.

    Through the Brazilian Wilderness Theodore Roosevelt 1888

  • It breeds good fish; the manatus is common, people talk of fresh-water sharks, and the jacare (crocodile) is fatal to many a pig even in the village.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • But for all that, the poor chiguires would not be certain of safety; for even in the water they might encounter another enemy, equally formidable and cruel, in the gigantic _jacare_ -- the crocodile of the Amazonian waters.

    Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850

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