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MAPINGUARI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mapinguari mean?
• MAPINGUARI (noun)
The noun MAPINGUARI has 1 sense:
1. supposed human-sized sloth-like creature reportedly sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest
Familiarity information: MAPINGUARI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Supposed human-sized sloth-like creature reportedly sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("mapinguari" is a kind of...):
mylodontid (a variety of extinct edentate)
Holonyms ("mapinguari" is a member of...):
family Mylodontidae; Mylodontidae (extinct South American edentates)
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