jaracaca

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English

Noun

jaracaca (plural jaracacas)

  1. Alternative form of jararaca (venomous snake of South America).
    • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World , London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
      It seems to have been a special nest of these vermins, and the slopes were alive with them, all writhing in our direction, for it is a peculiarity of the Jaracaca that he will always attack man at first sight.