mandacaru
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Portuguese mandacaru.
Noun
[edit]mandacaru (plural mandacarus)
- A cactus, Cereus jamacaru, native to central and eastern Brazil.
- 1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 70:
- The thought of vengeance helped him survive the weeks he spent wandering aimlessly about a desert wasteland bristling with mandacarus.
- 2013, Ardis Stenbakken, Breathe, page 20:
- But a tree—if I can call it that—that draws my attention is the mandacaru, a columnar cactus native to northeastern Brazil.
- 2006, Graciliano Ramos, “Whale”, in K. David Jackson, editor, The Oxford Anthology of the Brazilian Short Story, page 214:
- But the rest of her body shivered, mandacaru cactus thorns penetrated the flesh that had been half-eaten away by the disease.
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mandacaru m (plural mandacarus)
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