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tucumas

tucumas is the plural of tucuma.

Meaning of tucuma

Noun

tucuma (countable and uncountable, plural tucumas)

  1. A Brazilian palm (Astrocaryum aculeatum) with edible fruit.
  2. A fruit from this palm.
    • His [Vinicius Cantuária’s] songs, written in Portuguese (some are composed with Mr. [Arto] Lindsay and Caetano Veloso, and all are translated into English), are as typically internal and love-fixated as the best bossa nova, but rich with allusions to Brazilian food, music and geography. (A Tucuma...1999 April 9, Ben Ratliff, “Record of the Week”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015

Questions about tucumas

What is tucumas the plural of?
Tucumas is the plural of tucuma.

Words near tucumas in the dictionary

  1. tuctoo
  2. tucu-tuco
  3. tucu-tucos
  4. tucum
  5. tucuma
  6. tucumas
  7. Tucumcari
  8. Tucumán
  9. tucumã
  10. tucupi
  11. tucute

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