A freshwater turtle found in Central and South America, also called a loggerhead turtle or related species.
From Spanish 'hicotea,' derived from a Taíno or Arawakan word for the turtle. This term entered English through colonial zoological records.
Like 'hicaco,' 'hicatee' shows how Caribbean and Central American indigenous languages gave us names for animals colonizers had never seen before—and these words are linguistic fossils of those lost cultures.
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