tucumã

plural tucumãs

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of tucuma.

   The tucumã is an Amazonian fruit that is used as the filling for this typical Northern delicacy.

   2017 December, Instituto Brasil a Gosto, translated by Julia Debasse, Olívia Fraga, and Patrícia Oyama, “Breads and ‘Quitandas’”, in Basics: Brazilian Recipes Encyclopaedia, São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, →ISBN

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   Some snack bars incremented this morning sandwich and created the “x-caboquinho” – besides the French bread roll, the margarine and the tucumã, they also add cheese and fried banana.

   2013 December 26, Mouzar Benedito, translated by Phill Turner, “Notes on Manaus and Amazônia”, in Understanding Brazil, the Country of Football, São Paulo: Liz Editora, →ISBN

   [T]ry Brazil nuts with slices of the bizarrely salty orange palm fruit tucumã (£5, serves three).

   2014 June 11, Catherine Balston, “Brazil World Cup city guide: 10 best places to eat and drink in Manaus”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2014

   The combination of a buttery tapioca crepe, salty cheese, sweet banana, and the squash-like crunch of slightly bitter tucumã ticks all the boxes for me and is equally as good on a sandwich, or the famous X-Caboquinho.

   2016 July 26, Donna Bowater, “Everything You Need to Know About Breakfast Before the 2016 Olympics”, in Roads & Kingdoms, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Barcelona, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2025

   Depois das gravações do amanhecer, todos experimentaram o “x-caboquinho”, um sanduíche típico da culinária do Amazonas que consiste em um pão francês recheado com pedaços de tucumã, banana-pacova madura e fria, queijo coalho e manteiga.

   2021 April, Julio Steinmetz, translated by Taylyne Apollo, “Day 1 – New Year’s Eve at Ponta Negra beach. […]”, in The New Universe Age = Love, bilingual edition, part 2 (Beauty), Porto Alegre: Alcance, →ISBN

   In the State of Amazonas, the tucumã is the main ingredient of a typical sandwich (x-caboquinho), made with bread or tapioca (manioc flour), cheese, and fried banana.

   2021 June 3, Bernardo Tomchinsky, Gabriela G. Gonçalves, Almecina B. Fereira, “Food Composition Data: Edible Plants from the Amazon”, in Michelle Cristine Medeiros Jacob, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, editors, Local Food Plants of Brazil (Ethnobiology), Cham: Springer Nature, →ISBN, →ISSN, part IV (Food Composition Data on Brazilian Edible Plants by Biome), page 278