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The carnauba palm's nickname in the Tupi indigenous language is the tree of thorns.

Later that week, in Peruíbe, a town whose name means “river of sharks” in the Indigenous Tupi language, I meet a man who’s searching for mako to barbeque that day.

The bird’s name comes from the Tupi Indian language of Brazil and means “devil bird.”

That the programs were paid for by an unexpected fossil fuel boom following the 2007 discovery of the massive Tupi oilfield off Brazil’s coast is rarely mentioned by da Silva backers.

Jesuit priests went as far as creating Nheengatu, a language based on the Tupi Indigenous language adapted with Portuguese words and grammar.