meliponicultura
Portuguese, noun/me.li.po.ni.kuwˈtu.ɾɐ/
meliponicultura is spelled M-E-L-I-P-O-N-I-C-U-L-T-U-R-A (15 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese, the 128,503rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Meliponicultura is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “meliponiculture” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “criação racional de abelhas sem ferrão, ou meliponíneos (tribo Meliponini), diferente da apicultura que se…”.
What does meliponicultura mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemeliponiculture
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. criação racional de abelhas sem ferrão, ou meliponíneos (tribo Meliponini), diferente da apicultura que se refere essencialmente à criação de abelhas do género/gênero Apis, essa prática lida com mais de uma centena de espécies o que resulta em meles desuniformes e técnicas variadas de criação, sendo uma prática ancestral nos países da América Central e no Brasil
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 meliponicultura
- meliponiculturas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce meliponicultura?
- Brazil /me.li.po.ni.kuwˈtu.ɾɐ/
- Brazil [me.li.po.ni.kuʊ̯ˈtu.ɾɐ]
- Portugal /mɨ.li.pu.ni.kulˈtu.ɾɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is meliponicultura in Portuguese?
meliponicultura appears about once in every 19 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).