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Portuguese
Etymology 1
From chorar (“to cry”) + -ão.
Pronunciation
Noun
chorão m (plural chorões, feminine chorona, feminine plural choronas)
- crybaby (someone who cries readily)
- Synonym: choromingas
- (music) a player of choro, a genre of Brazilian popular music
- weeping willow, or any willow cultivar characterised by extreme pendulousness
- Synonym: salgueiro-chorão
- (Brazil) Casuarina equisetifolia, a she-oak of Southeast Asia and Oceania
- Synonym: pinheiro-casuarina
- cat's claw (Carpobrotus edulis, a small plant of South Africa)
- red-spectacled amazon (Amazona pretrei, a parrot of southern South America)
- Synonyms: charão, papagaio-charão, papagaio-da-serra
- white-bellied seedeater (Sporophila leucoptera, a bird of the Amazon forest)
- Synonym: patativa-chorona
- variegated tinamou (Crypturellus variegatus, a bird of Brazil)
- Synonyms: chororão, inhambu-anhangá, inhambu-codorna, inhambu-onça, inhambu-relógio
- any species of catfish capable of emitting a sound similar to crying
- (specifically) Trachycorystes galeatus, a driftwood catfish
- Synonym: anujá
Adjective
chorão (feminine chorona, masculine plural chorões, feminine plural choronas)
- who is a crybaby
- (botany) pendulous (having branches that bend downwards)
Etymology 2
Verb
chorão
- Obsolete spelling of choram.