Portuguese Words: B
2,073 words · Page 42 of 42
instrumento usado para determinar direções por meio de uma agulha magnetizada com movimento livre que sempre indica o norte magnético
designação comum às grandes conchas de moluscos gastrópodes, como, p. ex., a da espécie Cassis tuberosa, distribuída desde a América do Norte até o Rio de Janeiro e que é usada pelos pescadores e jangadeiros como um instrumento de sopro com que anunciam sua chegada ao porto, ou transmitem notícias no mar; sendo uma concha piramidal, com linhas longitudinais e transversais, e três fiadas de nódulos na parte superior da espiral do corpo; seu comprimento podendo chegar a mais de 20 centímetros; a concha também sendo usada para camafeus artísticos
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The Portuguese alphabetical index for the letter B contains 2,073 headwords drawn from our Wiktionary-derived dictionary table. At 50 entries per page the browse splits into 42 pages, and you are currently viewing page 42. Every row above is a dictionary-backed entry with a canonical slug, and each links through to a full definition page with pronunciation, senses, etymology, and related-word data where available.
On this page 23 of 23 entries carry a part-of-speech tag and 23 carry at least one stored definition. Coverage varies across letters because Wiktionary volunteers build entries at different speeds for different parts of the alphabet, letters with common starting sounds (S, C, T, P) usually have the densest coverage, while less frequent starters (X, Q, Z) tend to have shorter but more specialised lists. PlainSpell surfaces whatever data is present and links back to the source when a definition is not yet recorded.
For readers using this index as a spelling reference, the guarantee is that every form you see on the list is a documented Portuguese headword, not a guess, not a derived inflection lacking a lemma row. If a word you expected to find is absent from the "B" list, it usually means the form exists only as an inflection of another lemma (e.g. a past participle stored under the infinitive) or the entry has not yet been imported from Wiktionary. Use the search bar or the misspelling lookup to resolve these cases.