centrômero
Portuguese, noun
centrômero is spelled C-E-N-T-R-Ô-M-E-R-O (10 letters) and appears about once in every 71 million words in written Portuguese, the 232,157th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Centrômero is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of centrómero” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, centrómero is a different word: “centromere (region of a eukaryotic chromosome where the kinetochore…”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “região mais condensada do cromossomo, normalmente no meio deste, onde as cromátides-irmãs estão ligadas…”.
What does centrômero mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineBrazilian Portuguese standard spelling of centrómero
noun
- 1
masculinecentromere (region of a eukaryotic chromosome where the kinetochore is assembled)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. região mais condensada do cromossomo, normalmente no meio deste, onde as cromátides-irmãs estão ligadas, resultado da sua fase de duplicação.
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 centrômero
- centrómeros plural
- centrômero alternative Brazil
- centrômeros plural
- centrómero alternative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to centrômero
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is centrômero in Portuguese?
centrômero appears about once in every 71 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).