pirarucu
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pirarucu
1830–40; < Portuguese < Tupi pirá-rucú literally, red fish
Example Sentences
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Indigenous communities working together with non-Indigenous riverine settlers manage the pirarucu in preserved areas of the Amazon.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022
The leather is a byproduct of pirarucu meat, a staple food in the Amazon that is gaining new markets in Brazil’s largest cities.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 4, 2022
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
The rations now were tough jerked beef and monkey meat, slabs of salt pirarucu fish, and farinha, varied by tinned delicacies from the stores of the Americans.
From The Pathless Trail by Friel, Arthur O. (Arthur Olney)
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