candiru
Meaning of candiru
noun
a minute, slender catfish of the Amazon region, feeding by sucking blood from other fishes and sometimes entering the body orifices of mammals. It is notorious for its occasional habit of entering the urethra of human bathers.
mid 19th century: via Portuguese from Tupi candirú .
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Hyphenation of candiru
can-diru
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- candiru is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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