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CHICO
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• CHICO (noun)
The noun CHICO has 1 sense:
1. United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1891-1961)
Familiarity information: CHICO used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States comedian; one of four brothers who made motion pictures together (1891-1961)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Chico; Leonard Marx; Marx
Instance hypernyms:
comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)
Holonyms ("Chico" is a member of...):
Marx Brothers (a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor)
Context examples
In their work, researchers covered over 22 thousand km across the 14 conservation units, all of which controlled by the Chico Mendes Biodiversity Conservation Institute (ICMBio).
(Brazilian savanna unprotected, study finds, Agência Brasil)
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