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A member of the South American Indian people living in Brazil and Paraguay
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tupi
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tupi \Tu"pi\, n. An Indian of the tribe from which the Tupian stock takes its name, dwelling, at the advent of the Portuguese, about the mouth of the Amazon. Also, their language, which is the basis of the Indian trade language of the Amazon.
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Tupi can mean: Tupi people of Brazil Tupi or Tupian languages , spoken in South America Tupi language , an extinct Tupian language spoken by the Tupi people Tupi, former name of the Lula oil field off the coast of Brazil Tupi Paulista , a Brazilian municipality ...
Usage examples of tupi.
The custom prevailed among tribes so widely asunder as Peruvians, Tupis, Creeks, Iroquois, Algonkins, and Greenland Eskimos to thrash the curs most soundly during an eclipse.
Ancient Tupi is the basis of the Lingoa Geral, the inter-tribal tongue on the Middle Amazon.
Two brothers, Tupi and Guarani, lived with their families upon the sea-coast of Brazil.
He knew, for instance, that sloths were called sloths because the Tupi word for the three-toed sloth was ai, and AI had stood for artificial idiot or artificial imbecile ever since the concept of artificial intelligence had been subdivided.
Tupita, with the snap ring on the leash, fastened the leash on my right cuff, and Sita fastened the other leash on my left cuff.