pirarucu

From Old Tupi pirauruku.

pirarucu (plural pirarucus)

1. A fish, the arapaima (Arapaima gigas).

• “pirarucu”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Curupira

From Old Tupi pirauruku.[1]

• Hyphenation: pi‧ra‧ru‧cu

pirarucu m (plural pirarucus)

1. (Brazil) pirarucu; arapaima (Arapaima gigas, a freshwater fish of South America)