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Meanings of candiru in English

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Usage of candiru in English
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Big mother of a candiru fish, hiding in the swap file.
Brain jack
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Some of them, like the candiru, may well turn out not to be true.
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3
So has the candiru been miscast as a penis-chomping villain?
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Spotte is the only person to have ever dedicated themselves to seriously investigating the candiru myth.
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Yet in the past few decades there has only been one solid report of a candiru attack.
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A typical early account describes the candiru as "very small, but uniquely occupied in doing evil".
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First, the patient insisted that the candiru had ascended his urine stream before violently lodging itself in his urethra.
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The thing is, despite all the graphic depictions of genital mutilation, not one of these men ever witnessed a candiru attack.
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When I told the salesman what I knew about the candiru, he seemed to transform from the Romantic into the Practical.
The lost city of z: a tale of deadly obsession in the amazon
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Of all the denizens of the Amazon basin, there is none more feared than the tiny fish known as the candiru.
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In Manaus, the isolated capital of the Brazilian state of Amazonas, a patient was wheeled in with a candiru in his urethra.
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What emerges from their writing is a nightmarish picture of riverside communities scared to go near the water for fear of candiru attack.
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As more consideration has been given to the candiru, scientists have attempted to explain why these fish would attack humans in such a way.
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There are dozens of reports from the 19th and early 20th centuries of candiru behaviour, and every one relies exclusively on hearsay.
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Big mother of a candiru fish, hiding in the swap file.
Brain jack
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Some of them, like the candiru, may well turn out not to be true.
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