muçurana
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- mussurana (superseded)
Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Old Tupi musurana. The term didn't refer to any snake species in that language and the origin of the new sense in unknown.
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]muçurana f (plural muçuranas)(Brazil)
- (historical) musurana (rope used in Tupian anthropophagic rituals)
- common name of various black, ophiophagous snakes:
- Synonyms: boiru, cobra-do-bem, cobra-preta
Descendants
[edit]- → English: mussurana
Further reading
[edit]- “muçurana” in iDicionário Aulete.
- “muçurana” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.
- “muçurana” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
- “muçurana” in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa.
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