uçá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "uca"

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Tupi usá.[1]

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: u‧çá

Noun

uçá m (plural uçás)

  1. (Brazil) swamp ghost crab (Ucides cordatus)

References

  1. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “usá”, 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 503, column 2