muçum

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See also: Muçum and mucum

Portuguese

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Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi musũ.[1]

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes:
  • Hyphenation: mu‧çum

Noun

muçum m (plural muçuns)

  1. (Brazil) marbled swamp eel (Synbranchus marmoratus)

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “muçum”, 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 320, columns 1–2

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