miíase
Portuguese, noun/miˈi.a.zi/
miíase is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “myiasis (infestation of a living vertebrate with maggots)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does miíase mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemyiasis (infestation of a living vertebrate with maggots)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Forms of miíase
- miíases plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce miíase?
- Brazil /miˈi.a.zi/
- Brazil /ˈmji.a.zi/
- Portugal /ˈmji.ɐ.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 miíase
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is miíase in Portuguese?
miíase 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).