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pequi

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Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese pequi, from Old Tupi peke'i.

noun pequis · piki · piky · piqui

Any of various trees of the genus Caryocar, a souari. C. Brasiliénse[…] Native of Brazil in the provinces of St. Paul and Minas Geraes, where it is called by inhabitants Pequi. A small tree with a twisted stem.
The fruit of such trees, pequi nut. When Seu Mariano was occupied, I could count on my next-door neighbor, Manuel Roberto, to tell me about the days when he traveled through the surrounding hills selling the pungent oil of the pequi nut (prized for the distinctive flavor it gives to an otherwise dry and largely tasteless mixture of ri

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@misc{pequi_2026,
  title = {pequi},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/pequi},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}