buriti
Portuguese, noun/bu.ɾiˈt͡ʃi/
buriti is spelled B-U-R-I-T-I (6 letters) and appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese, the 32,104th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Buriti is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “moriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa, a palm of tropical South America)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “designação comum a plantas dos gênero Mauritia, Mauritiella, Trithrinax e Astrocaryum, da família das…”.
What does buriti mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilmasculinemoriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa, a palm of tropical South America)
- 2
Brazilmasculinethe fruit of the moriche palm
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. município brasileiro do estado do Maranhão
noun: 1. designação comum a plantas dos gênero Mauritia, Mauritiella, Trithrinax e Astrocaryum, da família das arecáceas (antigas palmáceas) 2. o fruto das espécies de plantas mencionadas anteriormente
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of buriti
- buritis plural
- muruti alternative
- muriti alternative
- buruti alternative
- miriti alternative
- murutim alternative obsolete
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce buriti?
- Brazil /bu.ɾiˈt͡ʃi/
- Portugal /bu.ɾiˈti/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is buriti in Portuguese?
buriti appears 1.1 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).