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chorão

Pronunciation: /ʃoˈɾɐ̃w̃/

“chorão” is a Portuguese word. Its 12 meanings in English:

noun

  1. crybaby (someone who cries readily)
  2. a player of choro, a genre of Brazilian popular music
  3. weeping willow (Salix babylonica) or any willow characterised by extreme pendulousness
  4. she-oak (Casuarina equisetifolia), of Southeast Asia and Oceania
  5. cat's claw (Carpobrotus edulis, a small plant of South Africa)
  6. red-spectacled amazon (Amazona pretrei, a parrot of southern South America)
  7. white-bellied seedeater (Sporophila leucoptera, a bird of the Amazon forest)
  8. variegated tinamou (Crypturellus variegatus, a bird of Brazil)
  9. any species of catfish capable of emitting a sound similar to crying
  10. driftwood catfish (Trachycorystes galeatus)

adjective

  1. who is a crybaby
  2. pendulous (having branches that bend downwards)

In Portuguese

  1. espécie de salgueiro de ramos pendentes, (Salix babylonica)
  2. designação de várias plantas cujas hastes se inclinam e pendem de vasos ou paredes
  3. macaco do Brasil
  4. passarinho conirostro
  5. aquele que chora muito; lamecha

Etymology

From chorar (“to cry”) + -ão.

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