murumuru

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Borrowed from Portuguese murumuru, from Old Tupi murumuru, a reduplication of muru (“thick”).

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Borrowed from Portuguese murumuru, from Old Tupi murumuru, a reduplication of muru (“thick”).

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