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Urucum

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Achiote. uncountable

    "Martius found most dressed in bits of clothing, their hair wildly tangled and their faces dyed red with urucum."

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese urucum, borrowed from Old Tupi uruku, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *uruku, from Proto-Tupian *ɨrʲuku.

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