anhinga

From New Latin anhinga or Portuguese anhinga, from Old Tupi anhinga.

anhinga (plural anhingas)

1. Synonym of darter: any bird of the genus Anhinga.
2. A fish-eating bird (Anhinga anhinga) of the Americas with a thin, pointed bill and a long, thin neck.

• (A. anhinga): American darter, American snakebird, water turkey

• (A. anhinga): snakebird, darter

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From Old Tupi anhinga.

anhinga f (genitive anhingae); first declension

1. (New Latin) anhinga or snakebird, a member of the genus Anhinga.

   Synonym: (obsolete) plotus

First-declension noun.

• Translingual: Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga

Unknown.

anhinga (unpossessable)

1. (hapax legomenon) anhinga (Anhinga anhinga)

   Synonym: migûá

• Nheengatu: anhinga
• → New Latin: anhinga
  • Translingual: Anhinga, Anhinga anhinga
• → Portuguese: anhinga

• Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], Rerum Naturalium Historiae, book V, chapter XV (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 218: “Anhinga”

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “anhinga”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 41, column 1

Borrowed from Old Tupi anhinga.

• Rhymes: -ĩɡɐ
• Hyphenation: a‧nhin‧ga

anhinga f (plural anhingas)

1. anhinga (Anhinga anhinga, a bird of the Americas)

   Synonyms: biguatinga, carará

• “anhinga”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “anhinga”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “anhinga”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025