Cayman

Cayman, a local name loosely applied to various species of alligator—e.g. to Alligator mississippiensis, the single species of the United States, or more frequently to other species found in tropical or subtropical America. The name has also been used, to all appearance unnecessarily, as the scientific title of a genus, and as such has been most frequently applied to A. palpebrosus and A. trigonatus. It seems more reasonable to regard all the alligators as within the limits of a single genus. See ALLIGATOR.