tucuxi
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Noun
[edit]tucuxi (plural tucuxis)
- A freshwater dolphin, estuarine dolphin Sotalia fluviatilis, found in the rivers of the Amazon Basin
Translations
[edit]freshwater dolphin
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Portuguese
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -i
- Hyphenation: tu‧cu‧xi
Noun
[edit]tucuxi m (plural tucuxis)
- tucuxi (Sotalia fluviatilis)
- Synonyms: boto-cinza, pirajaguara
- 1893 January 17, Lourenço da Fonseca, chapter IV, No Amazonas, in Diario de Manáos, volume III, number 83, page 2, column 1:
- — Come-se o tucuxy? perguntei eu ao comandante.
— Não. A carne é malcheirosa e de gosto desagradavel. Do tucuxy só se aproveita o azeite.- “Do people eat the tucuxi?” I asked the commander.
“No. The meat is smelly and has a unpleasant taste. From the tucuxi only the oil is useful.”
- “Do people eat the tucuxi?” I asked the commander.
- 1969 June 22, Luiz Medeiros, “O Maravilhoso Mundo dos Cetáceos”, in Jornal do Commercio, volume LXIV, number 20.126, Carderno de literatura, page 20, column 4:
- Falou-nos, também, que um tucuxi de dois metros pode produzir, extraído da sua gordura, uns oitos litros de óleo bem grosso.
- He also told us that a two-meter-long tucuxi can produce, extracting from its fat, about eight liters of very thick oil.
- 2021 October 4, João Paulo Vicente, “Quantos botos há na Amazônia?”, in National Geographic: Brasil[1], archived from the original on 2022-03-11:
- Também por ali, grupos de tucuxis pulavam animados, alguns com o corpo inteiro para fora da água.
- Around there, there were also groups of tucuxis that jumped cheerfuly, some with their whole body out of water.
Further reading
[edit]- “tucuxi”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
- “tucuxi”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- “tucuxi”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
- “tucuxi”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
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