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pintado

English translation: Brazilian tiger fish

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Portuguese term or phrase:pintado
English translation:Brazilian tiger fish
Entered by: kashew

19:48 Sep 2, 2011
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Cooking / Culinary / fish - peixes
Portuguese term or phrase: pintado
Como traduzir "pintado" - o peixe da Amazônia? Tudo que vejo na internet não está certo!!! Preciso de ajuda! Estou traduzindo um cardápio para um restaurante.
I am translating a restaurant menu in Brazilian Portuguese to English. The "pintado" is a fish served in restaurants here. It comes from the Amazon basin. It does not have scales.
phylbrazil (X)
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Brazilian tiger fish
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kashew
France
Local time: 05:25
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4 +2Brazilian tiger fish
kashew
3 +1Speckled Catfish
Clauwolf


  

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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Speckled Catfish


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What is A Speckled Catfish??? [Archive] - MonsterFishKeepers.com
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One of my favorites is the Pintado or Speckled Catfish. This is not your ordinary river cat. The Pintado, or pseudoplatystoma corruscans, is a ...

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Local time: 00:25
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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agree  Walter Moura
44 mins
  -> obrigado
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Brazilian tiger fish


Explanation:
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:ih-BJp4b6YoJ:www.m...

kashew
France
Local time: 05:25
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 3
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agree  Claudio Mazotti
3 hrs
  -> Thanks
neutral  airmailrpl: The reference is pretty badly written English
4 hrs
agree  T o b i a s: This would be appealing on a menu. (Reference badly written, but still appears to be native speaker. http://www.macgregors.com/tiger_fish.pdf)
1 day 4 hrs
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