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jacare

jacare is the alternative form of yacare.

Meaning of yacare

Noun

yacare (plural yacares)

  1. A caiman (Caiman yacare), indigenous to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, and Paraguay.
    • The yacare is not found farther south than the 32nd degree of south latitude. In its habit completely aquatic; and is never found excepting in the water or on the bank.1859, Cassell's popular natural history, page 24

Forms of jacare

pluraljacares

Questions about jacare

What is jacare the alternative form of?
Jacare is the alternative form of yacare.

Words near jacare in the dictionary

  1. jacanid
  2. jacanids
  3. jacaranda
  4. jacarandas
  5. jacaranone
  6. jacare
  7. jacares
  8. jacareubin
  9. Jacari
  10. jacaric
  11. jacaric acid

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jacare (page history and authors); yacare (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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