Tu·pí

(to͞o-pē′) or Tu·pi (to͞o′pē, to͞o-pē′)

n. pl. Tupí or Tu·pís also Tupi or Tu·pis

1. A member of any of a group of South American Indian peoples living along the coast of Brazil, in the Amazon River valley, and in Paraguay.

2. The Tupian language of the Tupí.

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Tupi

(tuːˈpiː)

npl -pis or -pi

1. (Peoples) a member of a South American Indian people of Brazil and Paraguay

2. (Languages) the language of this people, belonging to the Tupi-Guarani family

Tuˈpian adj

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Tu•pi

or Tu•pí

(tuˈpi, ˈtu pi)

n., pl. -pis, (esp. collectively) -pi.

1. a member of any of various groupings of American Indian peoples that inhabit or formerly inhabited parts of Brazil S of the Amazon River.

2. the family of closely related languages spoken by these peoples.

3. Tupian.

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	Tupi - a member of the South American Indian people living in Brazil and Paraguay South American Indian - a member of a native Indian group in South America
	2.	Tupi - the language spoken by the Tupi of Brazil and Paraguay Tupi-Guarani, Tupi-Guarani language - a family of South American Indian languages

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The government-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, said the new "ultra-deep" Tupi field could hold as much as eight billion barrels of recoverable light crude, sending Petrobras shares soaring and prompting predictions that Brazil could join the world's "top 10" oil producers.

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