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me⋅ti⋅cal

  [met-i-kal; Port. me-ti-kahl]
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–noun, plural -cals, Portuguese. -cais  [-kahysh] .
a brass coin and monetary unit of Mozambique, equal to 100 centavos: replaced the escudo in 1980.
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met·i·cal   (mět'ĭ-käl')   
n.   pl met·i·cais (-kīsh')
See Table at currency.

[Portuguese, from Arabic mitqāl, colloquial variant of miṯqāl, a unit of weight, from ṯaqula, to be heavy; see ṯql in Semitic roots.]
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