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Definition of Pirarucu
1. n. Same as Arapaima.
Definition of Pirarucu
1. Noun. A fish, the arapaima. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pirarucu
1. a large food fish [n -S]
Medical Definition of Pirarucu
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pirarucu
Literary usage of Pirarucu
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Working North from Patagonia: Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on by Harry Alverson Franck (1921)
"The greatest product of the Amazon itself is the pirarucu, a mammoth species of
cod that dies in salt water, which sometimes attains ten feet in length, ..."
2. The Rubber Industry of the Amazon and how Its Supremacy Can be Maintained by Joseph Froude Woodroffe, Harold Hamel Smith (1916)
"The chief fish which is obtained is the pirarucu,* in which a small trade is ...
The pirarucu is common in most of the lower rivers and in the inland lakes. ..."
3. Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1851)
"The following is the mode in which pirarucu is prepared on the ... A full-grown
pirarucu weighs, when fresh, from two to three arrobas, and affords from ..."
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