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moscardo

Portuguese, noun/mosˈkaʁ.du/

moscardo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “horsefly (fly of the family Tabanidae)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “inseto hematófago, muito comum na região amazônica e pré-amazônica”.

What does moscardo mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinehorsefly (fly of the family Tabanidae)

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

How Portuguese dictionaries define it

noun: 1. inseto hematófago, muito comum na região amazônica e pré-amazônica

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 moscardo

  • moscardos plural

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

How do you pronounce moscardo?

  • Brazil /mosˈkaʁ.du/
  • Brazil [mosˈkaɦ.du]
  • /mosˈkaɾ.du/

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

English words that translate to moscardo

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is moscardo in Portuguese?

moscardo appears about once in every 58 million words in written Portuguese.

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