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urucu

urucu is the alternative form of urucum.

Meaning of urucum

Noun

urucum (uncountable)

  1. Achiote.
    • Martius found most dressed in bits of clothing, their hair wildly tangled and their faces dyed red with urucum.2006, William Bryant, The Birds of Paradise: Alfred Russel Wallace: a Life, page 67

Questions about urucu

What is urucu the alternative form of?
Urucu is the alternative form of urucum.

Words near urucu in the dictionary

  1. Uru
  2. Uru.
  3. urubu
  4. urubus
  5. Urubú-Kaapor
  6. urucu
  7. urucum
  8. urucuri
  9. urucuri palm
  10. urucuri palms
  11. urucuri-iba

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Adapted from Wiktionary: urucu (page history and authors); urucum (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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