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pacu Zool.|pæˈkuː, ˈpækuː|
Also pacou, paco, paku.
[a. Tupi pacú.]
A large, vegetarian, freshwater fish, Colossoma nigripinnis, belonging to the family Characidæ and native to the northern parts of South America.
1825Waterton Wand. S. Amer. (1882) 35 The Pacou the richest and most delicious fish in Guiana. 1827Griffith tr. Cuvier X. 424 The Pacu. 1869R. F. Burton Highl. Brazil II. xvi. 240 The Pacú..The Carp-like body averages 2 to 3 palms in length. 1938A. H. Verrill Strange Fish & their Stories 218/1 Pacu. 1959P. Capon Amongst those Missing 181 Not too bad, I guess. A paku, and two of those fish sort of like bream. 1962D. W. Tucker tr. Sterba's Freshwater Fishes of World 112 (caption) The Pacu is a rarely-imported species from northern South America. 1974H. MacInnes Climb to Lost World vi. 86 In the river there was plenty of Pakuweed, so called by the Indians because the Paku fish is supposed to feed on it. 1977D. J. Coffey Encycl. Aquarium Fish 89/1 Colossoma nigripinnis. Pacu. 71 cm. (28 in.) This fish comes from the Amazon... Body colour is silver. The dorsal and anal fins are red in colour. |