drusa
Portuguese, noun/ˈdɾu.zɐ/
drusa is spelled D-R-U-S-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 37 million words in written Portuguese, the 174,701st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Drusa is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “druse (an inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “massa globular formada por cristais em forma de agulha, geralmente compostos por oxalato de cálcio…”.
What does drusa mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininedruse (an inner surface with a crust of tiny crystals)
- 2
femininedruse (an aggregation of calcium oxalate crystals found in certain plants)
- 3
femininedruse (a tiny yellow or white accumulation of extracellular material that builds up in Bruch's membrane of the eye)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. massa globular formada por cristais em forma de agulha, geralmente compostos por oxalato de cálcio, encontrada fixa à parede celular ou livre no citoplasma 2. grupamento irregular de cristais no interior de um geodo ou em cavidades de filões
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 drusa
- drusas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce drusa?
- Brazil /ˈdɾu.zɐ/
- Portugal /ˈdɾu.zɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to drusa
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is drusa in Portuguese?
drusa appears about once in every 37 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).