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mapinguari

mapinguari is the alternative form of mapinguary.

Meaning of mapinguary

Noun

mapinguary

  1. A legendary red-furred ground-dwelling sloth-like creature said to live in the Amazon rainforests of Brazil and Bolivia.
    • Tales of mapinguary encounters are common in Rio Branco.2007 July 8, Larry Rohter, “A Huge Amazon Monster Is Only a Myth. Or Is It?”, in New York Times

Forms of mapinguari

pluralmapinguaris

Questions about mapinguari

What is mapinguari the alternative form of?
Mapinguari is the alternative form of mapinguary.

Words near mapinguari in the dictionary

  1. maphrodites
  2. mapiko
  3. mapimite
  4. mapinastine
  5. Mapingian
  6. mapinguari
  7. mapinguaris
  8. mapinguary
  9. maple
  10. maple bark disease
  11. maple bark stripper's disease

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mapinguari (page history and authors); mapinguary (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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