• (n. pl.) A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called Aymbores.
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Bo`to·cu'dos noun plural [ Portuguese
botoque stopple. So called because they wear a wooden plug in the pierced lower lip.] A Brazilian tribe of Indians, noted for their use of poisons; -- also called
Aymborés .
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The Botocudos (called by themselves Nac-nanuk) are (were?) a tribe of Eastern Brazil. They were savagely exterminated by early Portuguese settlers who didn't approve of their cannibalism and strange customs, and in 1900 less than 15,000 remained, further reduced by 1904 to between 12,000 and 14,000. The Botocudos were described as very similar in a...
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