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citocinese

Portuguese, noun/ˌsi.to.siˈnɛ.zi/

citocinese is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “cytokinesis” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “processo final da divisão celular na qual o citoplasma de uma célula se divide para originar novas células”.

What does citocinese mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininecytokinesis

Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. processo final da divisão celular na qual o citoplasma de uma célula se divide para originar novas células

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 citocinese

  • citocineses plural

Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce citocinese?

  • Brazil /ˌsi.to.siˈnɛ.zi/
  • Portugal /ˌsi.tɔ.siˈnɛ.zɨ/

Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to citocinese

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is citocinese in Portuguese?

citocinese appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).