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Portuguese
Etymology
From caroço (“growth”) + -ama.
Pronunciation
Noun
caroçama f (plural caroçamas)
- (Brazil, rare) an excessive amount of hard fruit seeds, or of growths (abnormal masses, such as a tumours)
- 1952, João Simões Lopes Neto, Casos do Romualdo: contos gauchescos, Martins Livreiro, Page 44:
Naturalmente, cada ano as raízes da figueira cresciam e enterravam e afogavam essa — caroçama — que desaparecia.- Naturally, every year the fig tree’s roots would grow and bury and drown this — mass of seeds — which would disappear.
1962, Francisco Martins, Clarão na Serra, Edições Melhoramentos, page 181:Pegou doença ruim, de apodrecer o corpo, e ninguém queria saber dele pois a cara do coitado era uma caroçama feia, que Deus me livre e perdoe!- He caught a bad disease, which rots the body, and nobody wanted to have anything to do with him because the poor fellow’s face was an ugly mass of growths, God forbid!
1962, Valdomiro Silveira, Dirce Côrtes Riedel, Os caboclos: contos, Editôra Civilização Brasileira, page 11:[…] , curara o gôgo das chumbungas, queimara a caroçama dos frangos índios: tinha-lhe tanta confiança, mal comparando, como a que tinha em Deus.- , had cured the turkeys’ gapes, burned the gamecocks’ growth mass : he had as much trust in him, comparing badly, as he had in God.
- Synonym: caroçame