cururu
Portuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Tupi kururu.
Pronunciation
edit
- Hyphenation: cu‧ru‧ru
Noun
editcururu m (plural cururus)
- (Brazil, botany) climbing plant of the sapindaceae family with poisonous juice
- (Brazil, botany) Tree (Dialium guianense) of the legume family, native to the Guianas and Brazil, with reddish, hard wood
- (Brazil, zoology) common name for some large frogs of the bufonidae family
- (Brazil, zoology) common name for several small rodents with a cylindrical body, large head, very small ears, short neck and tail, strong and long claws and stiff bristles on their paws
- (Brazil) a kind of drumming
- (São Paulo, Mato Grosso) circle dance
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “cururu”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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