surubí

Spanish

Alternative forms

• zurubí (Argentina, Bolivia)

Pseudoplatystoma tigrinum

Etymology

Borrowed from Guaraní [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /suɾuˈbi/ [su.ɾuˈβ̞i]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: su‧ru‧bí
• Homophone: zurubí

Noun

surubí m (plural surubís or surubíes)

1. any of several catfishes of the genus Pseudoplatystoma.

   Synonyms: (Peru) doncella, (Peru) zúngaro

See also

• surubí on the Spanish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^es

Further reading

• “surubí”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28