pirarucu
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pirarucu
1830–40; < Portuguese < Tupi pirá-rucú literally, red fish
Example Sentences
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Then one day a businessman knocked on the door with a stack of pirarucu skins and asked him to take a look.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022
Experimenting with the new skins, Filgueiras found he was able to fix the many holes in the pirarucu leather using the same technique he had created for the toad leather.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022
But in the big slaughterhouses, where the bulk of the pirarucu catch is processed, the skin was being discarded.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022
Now they are part of the managed fishing of pirarucu, which improved relations between Indigenous people and non-Indigenous.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2022
I have mentioned the pirarucu several times as being the largest edible fish of the Amazon.
From In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians by Lange, Algot
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