Definitions
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- noun a family of South American Indian languages
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Examples
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Anacondas are known in Brazil as Sucuri (a Tupi-Guarani Indian name), and are the largest snakes in the Americas.
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Anacondas are known in Brazil as Sucuri (a Tupi-Guarani Indian name), and are the largest snakes in the Americas.
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Does the word 'chocolate' mean something else in Tupi-Guarani?
Archive 2009-12-01 TK 2009
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According to the press release: 'ikove means 'keep alive' in Tupi-Guarani, an indigenous South American language, and the luxurious Ikove Acai Chocolate skincare range does just that!'
The Chocolate Serum That Isn't TK 2009
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Does the word 'chocolate' mean something else in Tupi-Guarani?
The Chocolate Serum That Isn't TK 2009
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According to the press release: 'ikove means 'keep alive' in Tupi-Guarani, an indigenous South American language, and the luxurious Ikove Acai Chocolate skincare range does just that!'
Archive 2009-12-01 TK 2009
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He woke with a start when Quental spoke a few words to him in the Tupi-Guarani dialect of the region, addressing him as Manoel.
River Of Desire Taylor, Abra 1982
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The Tupi-Guarani have one word only to express all the varieties of love known to them -- _aihu_.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories Henry Theophilus Finck 1890
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It suggests the "Enduap" (rondache) of ostrich-plumes worn by the Tupi-Guarani barbarians of the Brazil, the bunchy caudal appendages which made the missionaries compare them with pigeons.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Universidade Estadual Paulista, from an indigenous Tupi-Guarani word meaning "reddish".
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