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Animal Words/Phrases
in Jamaican Patois

Refers to an insect with colorful wings.

Refers to a reptile with a long body and scaly skin.

Refers to a domesticated mammal raised for its meat.

Barble dove is the Jamaican Patois name for the ring necked dove.

"Rat Bat" is the Jamaican Patois name for nocturnal flying mammal

"Gaulin" is the Jamaican term for a heron bird

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