Example Sentences

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The carnauba palm's nickname in the Tupi indigenous language is the tree of thorns.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2024

Later that week, in Peruíbe, a town whose name means “river of sharks” in the Indigenous Tupi language, I meet a man who’s searching for mako to barbeque that day.

From National Geographic • Jul. 17, 2023

Jesuit priests went as far as creating Nheengatu, a language based on the Tupi Indigenous language adapted with Portuguese words and grammar.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 1, 2022

But the rest of the year plants here compete in shades of gray and white—caatinga means “white forest” in the Indigenous Tupi language.

From Science Magazine • Jun. 8, 2022

The belief in this being seems to be common to all the tribes of the Tupi stock.

From The Naturalist on the River Amazons by Bates, Henry Walter