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caiques

caiques is the plural 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.

Questions about caiques

What is caiques the plural of?
Caiques is the plural of caique.

Words near caiques in the dictionary

  1. caipora
  2. caiporas
  3. caique
  4. caiquejee
  5. caiquejees
  6. caiques
  7. cair
  8. caird
  9. cairds
  10. caire
  11. Cairene

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