urucum

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English

Noun

urucum (uncountable)

  1. Achiote.
    • 2006, William Bryant, The Birds of Paradise: Alfred Russel Wallace: a Life, page 67:
      Martius found most dressed in bits of clothing, their hair wildly tangled and their faces dyed red with urucum.
    • 2012, Daniel Everett, Language: The Cultural Tool, Profile, published 2013, page 122:
      They paint them, or at least parts of them, with urucum (reddish) plant dye or even their own blood if there are no urucum plants nearby.
    • 2013, Uchoa et al., ‘Antioxidant Properties of Singlet Oxygen Suppressors’, in Natural Antioxidants and Biocides from Wild Medicinal Plants, p. 78:
      Bixin results from lycopene oxidation and it is the main carotenoid found in the seed coat of urucum fruits (Bixa orellana L.), which is cultivated in tropical countries of South and Central America, Africa and Asia.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Tupi uruku.[1]

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ũ
  • Hyphenation: u‧ru‧cum

Noun

urucum m (plural urucuns)

  1. (botany) achiote (Bixa orellana, a tropical American evergreen shrub)
  2. (botany) achiote (seed of the achiote shrub)
  3. (botany) achiote (orange-red dye obtained from achiote seeds)

Synonyms

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) 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

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /uɾuˈkum/
  • Rhymes: -um
  • Syllabification: u‧ru‧cum

Noun

urucum m (uncountable)

  1. rare form of urucú
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