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  • noun Plural form of pirarucu.

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  • These fish include pacus (Metynnis and Mylossoma), tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum), pirarucus (Arapaima gigas), and sardinhas (Triportheus angulatus).

    Marajó varzea 2008

  • pirarucus” with red scales, as large as sturgeons, which when salted are used in great quantities throughout Brazil;

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

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