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fóvea

Portuguese, noun/ˈfɔ.vjɐ/

fóvea is spelled F-Ó-V-E-A (5 letters) and appears about once in every 63 million words in written Portuguese, the 220,311th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Fóvea is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “fovea (slight depression or pit in a bone or organ)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “cova, cavidade menor, fossa”.

What does fóvea mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    femininefovea (slight depression or pit in a bone or organ)

  2. 2

    femininefovea (concavity found in the retina of some vertebrates (lizards, humans, diurnal birds, etc.), devoid of rods, which has numerous cones and corresponds to the area of greatest visual acuity)

  3. 3

    femininefovea (excavation at the base of the leaves, located below the ligule in the inner part of the sheath, in plants of the genus Isoetes)

  4. 4

    femininefovea (small cavity in a plant organ)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. cova, cavidade menor, fossa 2. cavidade 3. pequena depressão ou cavidade; na retina do olho, aquela zona central em pequena depressão onde estão o maior número de receptores ópticos

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 fóvea

  • fóveas plural

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

How do you pronounce fóvea?

  • Brazil /ˈfɔ.vjɐ/
  • Portugal /ˈfɔ.vjɐ/
  • Portugal /ˈfɔ.bjɐ/

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

How common is fóvea in Portuguese?

fóvea appears about once in every 63 million words in written Portuguese.

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

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