Definition of Sucurujus

1. sucuruju [n] - See also: sucuruju

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sucurujus

suction cups
suction curettage
suction curettages
suction pump
suction stop
suction stops
suctional
suctioned
suctioning
suctions
suctorial
suctorian
suctorians
suctorious
sucuruju
sucurujus (current term)
sud
sudamen
sudamina
sudanophilia
sudaria
sudaries
sudarium
sudary
sudate
sudated
sudates
sudating

Literary usage of Sucurujus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. In the Amazon Jungle: Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River by Algot Lange, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1912)
"The rubber-workers, who had no doubt had many encounters with reptiles, told me about large sucurujus or boa-constrictors, which had their homes in the ..."

2. In the Amazon Jungle: Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River by Algot Lange, Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh (1912)
"The rubber-workers, who had no doubt had many encounters with reptiles, told me about large sucurujus or boa-constrictors, which had their homes in the ..."

3. Our Young Folks by John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton (1866)
"It is these that are more properly called sucurujus, — a name belonging to the common language spoken upon the Amazon, a mixture of Portuguese with the ..."

4. The Lower Amazon: A Narrative of Explorations in the Little Known Regions of by Algot Lange (1914)
"With a last glance at the disgusting mass of half- mutilated, half unhurt sucurujus we depart in the direction of the noise from the cachoeira rapid. ..."

5. The Lower Amazon: A Narrative of Explorations in the Little Known Regions of by Algot Lange (1914)
"Again we survey the situation and now notice that none of the sucurujus are paying any attention to us; merely playing their bifurcated tongues in our ..."

6. The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of by Henry Walter Bates (1884)
"This fable, which was doubtless suggested by the occasional appearance of sucurujus of unusually large size, takes a great variety of forms, ..."

7. The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, Habits of by Henry Walter Bates (1864)
"This fable^ which was doubtless suggested by the occasional appearance of sucurujus of unusually large size, takes a great variety of forms, ..."

8. The naturalist on the river Amazons by Henry Walter Bates (1863)
"This fable, which was doubtless suggested by the occasional appearance of sucurujus of unusually large size, takes a great variety of forms, ..."

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