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tamarutaca

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Portuguese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Tupi tamarutaka.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • Rhymes: -akɐ
  • Hyphenation: ta‧ma‧ru‧ta‧ca

Noun

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tamarutaca f (plural tamarutacas)

  1. (Brazil) mantis shrimp
    Synonyms: estomatópode, lacraia-do-mar, lagosta-boxeadora

References

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  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “tamarutaka”, 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 460, column 2