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- noun A small
parasitic fish , Vandellia cirrhosa, native to theAmazon river.
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Examples
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According to a Kansas State page on parasitology, there are some types of parasitic catfishes in the Amazon mostly in the genus Vandellia, and commonly called candiru that have been known to invade the human urethra, often while humans are urinating into a body of water.
News - latimes.com 2011
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If Tuillie's tool were to be the engine of his own destruction, I thought he'd have gotten gangrene after a candiru fish swam up his urethra on an ethnobotanical tour of the Amazon to consume rare psychoactives with the shamen of violent rainforest tribes like the Yanomamo.
Ramona at the Funeral Thomas Pluck 2011
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The candiru swims up ones urethra and basically uses barbs to stick get itself stuck in there.
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The candiru swims up ones urethra and basically uses barbs to stick get itself stuck in there.
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The candiru swims up ones urethra and basically uses barbs to stick get itself stuck in there.
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I think it would be animal abuse to attach a candiru to a tea-bagger.
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After reading the exceptional descriptions of all the things that can kill you in the Amazon basin, I will NEVER visit a place that has an indigenous creature like the candiru.
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My favorite question to ask an IDC is whether or not Yahweh created such pleasant and wonderful creatures as the botfly or the candiru in their current form.
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My favorite question to ask an IDC is whether or not Yahweh created such pleasant and wonderful creatures as the botfly or the candiru in their current form.
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My favorite question to ask an IDC is whether or not Yahweh created such pleasant and wonderful creatures as the botfly or the candiru in their current form.
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