pirarucu
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English
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Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pirarucu.
Noun
[edit]pirarucu (plural pirarucus)
- A fish, the arapaima (Arapaima gigas).
Translations
[edit]arapaima — see arapaima
References
[edit]- “pirarucu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/%E5%B7%A8%E9%AA%A8%E8%88%8C%E9%AD%9A_Arapaima_gigas_-_panoramio.jpg/250px-%E5%B7%A8%E9%AA%A8%E8%88%8C%E9%AD%9A_Arapaima_gigas_-_panoramio.jpg)
Etymology
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Borrowed from Nheengatu pirarukú.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -u
- Hyphenation: pi‧ra‧ru‧cu
Noun
[edit]pirarucu m (plural pirarucus)
Descendants
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- English terms borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese
- English terms derived from Brazilian Portuguese
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Osteoglossomorph fish
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Nheengatu
- Portuguese terms derived from Nheengatu
- Portuguese 4-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/u
- Rhymes:Portuguese/u/4 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Brazilian Portuguese
- pt:Osteoglossomorph fish