muçurana

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi musurana. By surface analysis, muçu +‎ -rana. The term didn't refer to any snake species in that language and the origin of the new sense is unknown.

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /mu.suˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /mu.suˈɾɐ.na/
 

  • Rhymes: -ɐnɐ, -ɐ̃nɐ
  • Hyphenation: mu‧çu‧ra‧na

Noun

muçurana f (plural muçuranas)(Brazil)

  1. (historical) musurana (rope used in Tupian anthropophagic rituals)
  2. common name of various black, ophiophagous snakes:
    Synonyms: boiru, cobra-do-bem, cobra-preta
    1. (strictly) mussurana (Clelia clelia)
    2. black false boa (Pseudoboa nigra)
    3. Boiruna sertaneja

Descendants

  • → English: mussurana

Further reading

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