muçurana
Portuguese, noun/mu.suˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/
muçurana is spelled M-U-Ç-U-R-A-N-A (8 letters) and appears about once in every 79 million words in written Portuguese, the 244,057th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Muçurana is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “musurana (rope used in Tupian anthropophagic rituals)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cobra não venenosa que se nutre de cobras venenosas; seu nome científico é Clelia clelia”.
What does muçurana mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilfemininemusurana (rope used in Tupian anthropophagic rituals)
- 2
Brazilfemininemussurana (Clelia clelia)
- 3
Brazilfeminineblack false boa (Pseudoboa nigra)
- 4
BrazilfeminineBoiruna sertaneja
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. cobra não venenosa que se nutre de cobras venenosas; seu nome científico é Clelia clelia
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 muçurana
- muçuranas plural
- mussurana alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce muçurana?
- Brazil /mu.suˈɾɐ̃.nɐ/
- Portugal /mu.suˈɾɐ.nɐ/
- Portugal /mu.suˈɾa.nɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is muçurana in Portuguese?
muçurana appears about once in every 79 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).