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curupiras

curupiras is the plural of curupira.

Meaning of curupira

Noun

curupira (plural curupiras)

  1. A male supernatural being in Brazilian folklore, a protector of forests, having hair made of fire and feet turned backwards.

Questions about curupiras

What is curupiras the plural of?
Curupiras is the plural of curupira.

Words near curupiras in the dictionary

  1. curuba
  2. curubas
  3. curule
  4. curundum
  5. curupira
  6. curupiras
  7. Curupuri
  8. cururo
  9. cururos
  10. curva
  11. curvaceous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: curupiras (page history and authors); curupira (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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