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Múri

2 entry variants

Portuguese definitions

  1. 1
    Eater; devourer.
  2. 2
    figurative
    Spendthrift; sponger.
  3. 3
    adj. Mellivorous.
    Examples
    • 💬múri a ulki
  4. 4
    carnivorous.
    Examples
    • 💬múri o xitu
  5. 5
    anthropophagous.
    Examples
    • 💬múri 'alu
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Portuguese definitions

  1. 1
    botany
    • Climbing sarmentose shrub, of the Apocynaceae family (alplorhynchus psilopus), with compound branches and rubber-bearing latex.
    • See katari-mbulu.
  2. 2
    medicinal climbing plant.
    Examples
    • 💬múri a-hombo
  3. 3
    Human intestine; ox gut used for stuffing or as a syringe.
  4. 4
    figurative
    Something thin and long.
  5. 5
    chorography
    Village in the former municipality of Golungo-Alto, near the river of that name, a tributary of the right bank of the Lucala, civil district of Cazengo, district and province of Luanda.

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