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Belize
caan sham
A desert snack made by shelling dry corn, parching it in a hot pot and then pounding it in a wooden mortar and sifting it until it is similar to sand. Salt or sugar can then be added to the brown mixture and it can be eaten dry or with water.
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Puerto Rico
caballito san pedro
A dragonfly.
animal
1 comments
Jamaica
cabbage tree
Palm trees with edible hearts
food
Grenada
cabusy
Dented or bent
Trinidad & Tobago
caca
Father's younger brother
person
family
5 comments
Antigua & Barbuda
Guyana
Trinidad & Tobago
caca hole
Anus.
2 comments
Grenada
caca jay
Mucus found at the corner of eyes
1 comments
Antigua & Barbuda
cacahole
Buttocks or rear end.
3 comments
Trinidad & Tobago
cackey
Father's younger brother's wife
person
family
US Virgin Islands
cafoon
To knock or push over.
Barbados
cafuffle
Totally confused
Trinidad & Tobago
caimite
A round fruit about the size of a tennis ball. It has a glossy leathery skin that is either green, purple, or some combination of the two colours. Inside is a purple and white milky flesh that exhibits a distinct star pattern. The fruit is sweet and eaten raw
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US Virgin Islands
cainit
A round fruit about the size of a tennis ball. It has a glossy leathery skin that is either green, purple, or some combination of the two colours. Inside is a purple and white milky flesh that exhibits a distinct star pattern. The fruit is sweet and eaten raw
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plant
fruit
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Dominican Republic
cajuil
Otaheite apple; Pear shaped fruit with red skin and white flesh. Typically, they contain a single large seed. However, they may occasionally be seedless. The fruit is sweet and is usually eaten raw or used to make drinks.
food
plant
fruit
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Bahamas
cake
The vagina. The female sexual organ.
3 comments
Barbados
Jamaica
cake soap
Blocks of blue soap used for washing and whitening laundry.
2 comments
Jamaica
calaban
A trap for catching ground walking or ground feeding birds and small animals such as the coney or manicou. The trap is made from a upside-down box or container lightly propped up by a stick with bait underneath. A string is attached to the stick such that when the animal enters it trips the string which then pulls the stick and causes the trap to fall.
Barbados
Belize
Dominica
Guyana
Jamaica
St. Kitts & Nevis
Trinidad & Tobago
calabash
A gourd that is used for utilitarian purposes, and not for food. The skin or shell of the large green fruit hardens to become wood-like when dry. The shell can then be carved and is used to make a variety of items including cups, and bowls and decorative pieces.
plant
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Trinidad & Tobago
calchul
A ladle commonly used to serve dhal
1 comments
Trinidad & Tobago
calibash
A gourd that is used for utilitarian purposes, and not for food. The skin or shell of the large green fruit hardens to become wood-like when dry. The shell can then be carved and is used to make a variety of items including cups, and bowls and decorative pieces.
Trinidad & Tobago
calinda
A style of stick fighting martial art commonly seen during Carnival . It is the national martial art of Trinidad and Tobago
Belize
Grenada
Guyana
Jamaica
St. Vincent
callaloo
Aramanth - an edible green leafy vegetable resembling spinach. It is typically prepared by steaming, often with saltfish
plant
food
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Puerto Rico
camaron
Shrimp, particularly freshwater shrimp
food
Jamaica
can grenade
Canned mackerel in tomato sauce
food
Trinidad & Tobago
canal conch
A promiscuous woman.
person
1 comments
Trinidad & Tobago
candle fly
A firefly; A beetle that produces a blinking yellow, orange, or red light via bioluminescence.
animal
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Guyana
canguhlong
A deadbeat, a person who does not advance his/her social standing; abbreviation for can't go along
Trinidad & Tobago
canistel
Canistel; A bright yellow ovoid fruit with a pointed tip. It is related to the sapodilla and is edible. The flesh tends to be dryer than other sapodillas and the texture is similar to that of a hardboiled egg yolk.
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plant
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Guyana
canyadan
A virgin bride
person
Trinidad & Tobago
US Virgin Islands
capok tree
The silk cotton tree (Ceiba pentandra) is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously separated in the family Bombacaceae), It is known for the cotton like fibres produced by its seed pods. It features in obeah and other African based superstition and religious.
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