jararaca
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Portuguese jararaca, from Old Tupi îararaka.
Noun edit
jararaca (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 edit
Bothrops jararaca
References edit
- jararaca on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Bothrops jararaca on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Bothrops jararaca on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Old Tupi îararaka.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
jararaca f (plural jararacas)
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îararaka”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 161, column 2