Etymology

surucucu

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Today it means: A venomous pit viper, the bushmaster. Full definition →

Portuguese surucucu ← Old Tupi surukuku
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The story

  1. Old Tupi · derived fromsurukuku
  2. Portuguese · derived fromsurucucu
  3. English todaysurucucu

From Portuguese surucucu, from Old Tupi surukuku.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.