A Spanish term for a piranha or other aggressive carnivorous fish found in South American waters.
From Spanish 'caribe,' derived from Carib, the indigenous people's language. The term was applied to the fierce fish, possibly because they were as fearsome as the Carib warriors.
The word 'caribe' traveled through Spanish from indigenous South American languages, and it shows how languages share words for animals when one group teaches another group about local wildlife!
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