Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zool.) A supposed human-sized slothlike creature reported sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest.
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- noun Alternative form of
mapinguary .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun supposed human-sized sloth-like creature reportedly sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest
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Examples
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Interestingly, on the site there is a section on ‘mythic beast sighting’1 which depicts a mapinguari, as cited on oceanic-air.com in a leaked script throw-out.
'The Lost Experience': What in the name of Alvar Hanso is going on? | EW.com 2006
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* still hoping that one day, just one day, we'll find out whether the fabled mapinguari of the Amazon is really a surviving giant sloth*
Meet peccary # 4 Darren Naish 2006
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"adventure" by David A. Rozansky "Publisher, Flying Pen Press" Customer tags: feral world, adventure, action adventure, mapinguari, post-apocalypse, war, fiction science fiction
We Blog A Lot 2009
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