muco
Portuguese, noun/ˈmu.ku/
muco is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “mucus (slippery or sticky secretion)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “substância visco-elástica de origem biológica, produzida como método de proteção de superfícies no ser vivo”.
What does muco mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinemucus (slippery or sticky secretion)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. substância visco-elástica de origem biológica, produzida como método de proteção de superfícies no ser vivo
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 muco
- mucos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce muco?
- Brazil /ˈmu.ku/
- Portugal /ˈmu.ku/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to muco
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is muco in Portuguese?
muco appears 1.3 times per million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).