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jararaca

jararaca noun: a venomous snake of species Bothrops jararaca, found in South America.

jararaca: a venomous snake of species Bothrops jararaca, found in South America
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Noun

jararaca (plural jararacas)

  1. A venomous snake of species Bothrops jararaca, found in South America.
    • The pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb, for example, found that the venom of the jararaca snake could help control high blood pressure and used it to create the drug Captopril.2008 May 18, Alexei Barrionuevo, “Whose Rain Forest Is This, Anyway?”, in New York Times

Forms of jararaca

pluraljararacas

Origin of jararaca

Borrowed from Portuguese jararaca, from Old Tupi îararaka.

Questions about jararaca

What does jararaca mean?
Jararaca means a venomous snake of species Bothrops jararaca, found in South America.
What part of speech is jararaca?
Jararaca is a noun.
What is the plural of jararaca?
The plural of jararaca is jararacas.

Words near jararaca in the dictionary

  1. Jarales
  2. Jarama
  3. Jaramillo
  4. Jaramillos
  5. jarandolite
  6. jararaca
  7. jararacas
  8. jararacussin
  9. jararacussu
  10. jararacussus
  11. jararaka

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