quedavichicʉ

Cubeo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /keˈdawit͡ʃikɨ/

Noun

quedavichicʉ m (plural quedavichiva)

1. a type of edible caterpillar (medium; pink stomach, reddish, white and yellow striped back; hairy with soft hairs that do not hurt much when touched; they stay on branches during the day, at night they climb to eat leaves; before turning into moths when they are large, people carefully collect them in baskets or pots with their hands and cook them to eat).

See also

• cajedocʉ

References

• N. L. Morse; J. K. Salser; N. de Salser (1999), "quedavichicʉ", in Diccionario ilustrado bilingüe: cubeo-español, espanõl-cubeo, →ISBN
• N. L. Morse; M. B. Maxwell (1999), Cubeo Grammar: Studies in the languages of Colombia 5, Summer Institute of Linguistics, →ISBN