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jararaca

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English

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jararaca

Etymology

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    Borrowed from Portuguese jararaca, from Old Tupi îararaka.

    Noun

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    jararaca (plural jararacas)

    1. A venomous snake of species Bothrops jararaca, found in South America.
      • 2008 May 18, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Whose Rain Forest Is This, Anyway?”, in New York Times[1]:
        The pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb, for example, found that the venom of the jararaca snake could help control high blood pressure and used it to create the drug Captopril.

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    Portuguese

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    Etymology

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      Borrowed from Old Tupi îararaka.[1]

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      Noun

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      jararaca f (plural jararacas)

      1. jararaca

      Descendants

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      • English: jararaca
      • Hunsrik: Scharack
      • Polish: żararaka
      • Translingual: Bothrops jararaca

      References

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      1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îararaka”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 161, column 2