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Portuguese
Etymology
Literally, “wood tree”. Constructed on the model of pé de X, which refers to an individual plant, where X is something produced by the plant (e.g. pé de maçã (“apple tree”), pé de milho (“cornstalk”), pé de canela (“cinnamon tree”)).
Pronunciation
Noun
pé de pau m (plural pés de pau)
- (Northeast Brazil) a tree of an uncertain, unknown or irrelevant species
- Luzia Tereza dos Santos, Maria Garrancho in 2001, Altimar Pimentel, Estórias de Luzia Tereza, volume 2, Thesaurus Editora, page 91:
A águia tomou avôo, foi embora para muito longe, foi baixar num pé de pau em frente do reinado.- The eagle took flight, went far away, and landed on a random tree in front of the kingdom.
- Synonym: pé de árvore
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pé, de, pau.