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CARIB | |
| agama | a tropical lizard. |
| anole | a tropical lizard. |
| backra | a white man or woman. |
| conima | a fragrant resin. |
| curara curare curari urare | a paralysing poison extracted from the bark of certain S. American trees. |
| dividivi | the curved pods of a small tropical American tree, used for tanning and dyeing. |
| grugru | a West Indian name for several kinds of palm. |
| kamichi | a S. American bird, aka the horned screamer. |
| manatee manati | a large aquatic herbivorous mammal. |
| mobbie mobby | a frothy beverage made from boiled tree-bark. |
| the plant yielding curare. | |
| peccary | a kind of wild pig. [Carib pakira.] |
| the rain-tree, a member of the mimosa family. | |
| tinamou | any one of several species of South American birds belonging to Tinamus and allied genera. |
| tomalley | the liver of the lobster, which makes a green sauce when cooked. [Carib taumali.] |
| yuca yucca | any of various plants constituting the genus Yucca, of the agave family, which have a woody stem with a crown of rigid sword-shaped leaves and a panicle of bell-shaped flowers and are native to desert regions of N. America. |