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caïque

caïque is the alternative spelling of caique.

Meaning of caique

Noun (1)

caique (plural caiques)

  1. A small wooden trading vessel, brightly painted and rigged for sail, traditionally used for fishing and trawling.
    • Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435

Noun (2)

caique (plural caiques)

  1. Any of four (previously two) species of parrot in the genus Pionites.

Forms of caïque

pluralcaïques

Questions about caïque

What is caïque the alternative spelling of?
Caïque is the alternative spelling of caique.

Words near caïque in the dictionary

  1. caziquism
  2. cazo process
  3. cazy
  4. Cazzy
  5. caïc
  6. caïque
  7. caïquejee
  8. caïquejees
  9. caïques
  10. Caïssa
  11. cañada

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Adapted from Wiktionary: caïque (page history and authors); caique (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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