Carrao

Origin

From American , from

car(r)aú, carao, caraó,

Louise Pound, Kemp Malone, Arthur Garfield Kennedy, William Cabell Greet, American Speech (University of Alabama Press, 1939), page 257

originally probably imitative. Compare courlan, from a Cariban language.

Full definition of carrao

Noun

1. The limpkin, a bird.

Alternative forms

• carau

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