pirarucu

English

Etymology

From the native South American name.

Noun

pirarucu (plural pirarucus)

A fish, the arapaima (Arapaima gigas).

Translations

arapaima — see arapaima

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pirarucu in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Curupira

Portuguese

Noun

pirarucu m (plural pirarucus)

pirarucu; arapaima (Arapaima gigas, a freshwater fish of South America)

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