caroçama

== Portuguese == === Etymology === From caroço (“growth”) + -ama. === Pronunciation === === Noun === caroçama f (plural caroçamas) (Brazil, rare) an excessive amount of hard fruit seeds, or of growths (abnormal masses, such as a tumours) 1952, João Simões Lopes Neto, Casos do Romualdo: contos gauchescos, Martins Livreiro, Page 44: Synonym: caroçame ==== Related terms ==== === Further reading === “caroçama”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “caroçama”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026