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matapee

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mat-apee
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A yuca strainer or press (sebucan) in the form of a tube of basketry hung from a hook and compressed by stretching the lower end with a pole, used for expressing prussic acid out of yuca pulp.

Etymology

Borrowed from Kari'na matapi.

Inflected Forms

matapees (plural) matapi (alternative)

Questions

What does matapee mean?
A yuca strainer or press (sebucan) in the form of a tube of basketry hung from a hook and compressed by stretching the lower end with a pole, used for expressing prussic acid out of yuca pulp.
Where does matapee come from?
Borrowed from Kari'na matapi.

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