Nheengatu edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Tupi *kupu'y.

Noun edit

kupuí

  1. plant of the species Theobroma subincanum

Descendants edit

  • Brazilian Portuguese: cupuí

References edit

  • Charles Roland Clement et al. (2024) “Finding the origin of domestication of cupuaçu requires more than genomics”, in SciELO Preprints, →DOI
  • Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “kupuí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 407