jararaca

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English

jararaca

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese jararaca, from Old Tupi îararaka.

Noun

jararaca (plural jararacas)

  1. 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:
      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.

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Portuguese

Etymology

    Borrowed from Old Tupi îararaka.[1]

    Pronunciation

     

    Noun

    jararaca f (plural jararacas)

    1. jararaca

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    References

    1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îararaka”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 161, column 2
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