Citations:aramaça

English citations of aramaça

a fish, Syacium papillosum, the dusky flounder: the aramaca (from Tupian)

• 1996, Tristan Jones, The Incredible Voyage: A Personal Odyssey, Sheridan House, Inc. (→ISBN), page 125:

  In the sweaty cabin I inspected it, while Conrad desperately tried for another fish in the roaring, rushing waters outside. [...] Conrad, thin and very sick looking, came from the companionway clutching a tiny aramaça sole, which he had dredged up from the river bottom. [...] As we scoffed down the aramaça, bitter tasting and tiny, dreaming of luxuries like milk and bread ...