kupuí
Nheengatu
Alternative forms
- kupuaí (obsolete)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Tupi *kupu'y.
Noun
kupuí (plural kupuí-itá)
- plant of the species Theobroma subincanum
Descendants
- → Brazilian Portuguese: cupuí
References
- Charles Roland Clement et al. (2024) “Finding the origin of domestication of cupuaçu requires more than genomics”, in SciELO Preprints,
- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kupuí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, , page 407