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Terms in Portuguese 3071-3077 of 3077

xerém

/sheh-RENG/
[Portuguese]

A sort of savoury porridge.

xerém chouriço

[Portuguese]

A sort of savoury porridge with pieces of chouriço sausage.

xerêz

/SHEH-resh/
[Portuguese]

Sherry

xicara

/SHEE-kuh-ruh/
[Portuguese]

Cup

ximxim de galinha

/sheen-SHEENG deu guh-LEEN-yuh/
[Portuguese]

Chicken stewed in palm oil and simmered in a sauce containing peppers, onions and peanuts and flavoured with minced (US: ground) prawns, lemon and garlic.

yogurte

/yoo-GOORT/
[Portuguese]

Yoghurt

zagaia-castanheta

/zhah-GAH-ee-uh/
[Portuguese]

Mantis shrimp. Squill. A flat tailed crustacean with a delicate flavour found from the eastern coast of North America to the Adriatic and Mediterranean. It is related to a crab rather than a prawn and bears some resemblance to a praying mantis, a kind of flat lobster which makes a chirp like a cricket and has lilac marks on its white flesh.