areia movediça
Portuguese, noun
areia movediça is spelled A-R-E-I-A-M-O-V-E-D-I-Ç-A (13 letters). Areia movediça is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “quicksand (wet sand that things readily sink in)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does areia movediça mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininequicksand (wet sand that things readily sink in)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
phrase: 1. banco de areia saturado com água, pouco resistente à pressão, a formar atoleiro que afunda objetos, pessoas ou animais que nele caem ou pisam
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 areia movediça
- areias movediças plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to areia movediça
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.