jutai
jutai Lexical Profile
• noun
A river in western Brazil that flows northeast through the dense Amazon rainforest to join the Amazon River.
"The indigenous communities living along the Jutai rely heavily on its waters for transportation and sustainable fishing."
A municipality located in the state of Amazonas in northern Brazil, situated near the banks of the Jutaí River.
"Researchers traveled to Jutai to establish a base camp before surveying the unique biodiversity of the surrounding extractive reserve."
Any of several large, fruit-bearing leguminous trees native to the Amazon basin, often valued for their exceptionally hard timber and the copal resin they produce.
"The heavy, durable wood of the jutai tree is notoriously difficult to process without specialized milling equipment."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed into Portuguese from Old Tupi (likely 'yu'tai'), referring originally to a type of fruit-bearing tree and later applied to the river and region in the Amazon basin.
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