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5 letters · 8 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation
originBack-formation from the plural, from the stem of translingual Pangasius (genus name), from Bengali পাঙ্গাশ (paṅgaś, “mud- or brown-coloured fish”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0