medronheiro
Portuguese, noun/me.dɾõˈɲe(j).ɾu/
medronheiro is spelled M-E-D-R-O-N-H-E-I-R-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese, the 142,541st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Medronheiro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo, a small, fruit-bearing tree of Europe)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “arbusto da família das Ericáceas, sempre verde com frutos comestíveis (Arbutus unedo)”.
What does medronheiro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinestrawberry tree (Arbutus unedo, a small, fruit-bearing tree of Europe)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. arbusto da família das Ericáceas, sempre verde com frutos comestíveis (Arbutus unedo)
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 medronheiro
- medronheiros plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce medronheiro?
- Brazil /me.dɾõˈɲe(j).ɾu/
- Brazil [me.dɾõˈj̃e(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- Portugal /mɨ.dɾuˈɲɐj.ɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is medronheiro in Portuguese?
medronheiro appears about once in every 23 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).