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piroróco

piroróco is the alternative form of pororoca.

Meaning of pororoca

Noun

pororoca (plural pororocas)

  1. A tidal flood, especially at the mouth of the Amazon River, that rushes with a roaring noise into the river and proceeds in one or more waves that often present a very abrupt front of considerable height.

Questions about piroróco

What is piroróco the alternative form of?
Piroróco is the alternative form of pororoca.

Words near piroróco in the dictionary

  1. piroplasmoses
  2. piroplasmosis
  3. piroplasms
  4. piroque
  5. piroques
  6. piroróco
  7. Piros
  8. piroschki
  9. piroschkis
  10. piroshki
  11. piroshkis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: piroróco (page history and authors); pororoca (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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