adenina
Portuguese, noun/a.deˈnĩ.nɐ/
adenina is spelled A-D-E-N-I-N-A (7 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese, the 85,416th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Adenina is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “adenine (a base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “leucomaína (resultante da ação dos ácidos minerais sobre a nucleína)”.
What does adenina mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineadenine (a base, C₅H₅N₅, found in certain glands and tissues, which pairs with thymine in DNA and uracil in RNA)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. leucomaína (resultante da ação dos ácidos minerais sobre a nucleína) 2. um dos aminoácidos que fazem parte das moléculas do ácido desoxirribonucleico (ADN ou DNA) e do ácido ribonucleico (ARN ou RNA)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of adenina
- adeninas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce adenina?
- Brazil /a.deˈnĩ.nɐ/
- Portugal /ɐ.dɨˈni.nɐ/
- Portugal [ɐ.ðɨˈni.nɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to adenina
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is adenina in Portuguese?
adenina appears about once in every 7 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).