jararaca
English
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Etymology
editBorrowed from Portuguese jararaca, from Old Tupi îararaka.
Noun
editjararaca (plural jararacas)
- A venomous snake of species Bothrops jararaca, found in South America.
- 2008 May 18, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Whose Rain Forest Is This, Anyway?”, in New York Times[1]:
- The pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb, for example, found that the venom of the jararaca snake could help control high blood pressure and used it to create the drug Captopril.
Translations
editBothrops jararaca
References
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jararaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Bothrops jararaca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Bothrops jararaca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams
editPortuguese
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Old Tupi îararaka.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
editjararaca f (plural jararacas)
Descendants
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edit- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îararaka”, 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 161, column 2
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