chorão

Chorar (“to cry”) +‎ -ão.

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ʃo.ˈɾɐ̃w̃/
• Homophone: Chorão

chorão m (plural chorões, feminine chorona, feminine plural choronas)

1. crybaby (someone who cries readily)
2. (music) a player of choro, a genre of Brazilian popular music
3. weeping willow, or any willow cultivar characterised by extreme pendulousness
4. (Brazil) Casuarina equisetifolia, a she-oak of Southeast Asia and Oceania
5. cat's claw (Carpobrotus edulis, a small plant of South Africa)
6. red-spectacled amazon (Amazona pretrei, a parrot of southern South America)
7. white-bellied seedeater (Sporophila leucoptera, a bird of the Amazon forest)
8. variegated tinamou (Crypturellus variegatus, a bird of Brazil)
9. any species of catfish capable of emitting a sound similar to crying
10. (specifically) Trachycorystes galeatus, a driftwood catfish

• (crybaby): choromingas
• (weeping willow): salgueiro-chorão
• (Causarina equisetifolia): pinheiro-casuarina
• (red-spectacled amazon): charão, papagaio-charão, papagaio-da-serra
• (white-bellied seedeater): patativa-chorona
• (variegated tinamou): chororão, inhambu-anhangá, inhambu-codorna, inhambu-onça, inhambu-relógio
• (Trachycorystes galeatus): anujá

chorão m (feminine singular chorona, masculine plural chorões, feminine plural choronas, comparable)

1. who is a crybaby
2. (botany) pendulous (having branches that bend downwards)

• chorar
• choro

See choram.

chorão

1. Obsolete form of choram.