mutuca
Portuguese, noun/muˈtu.kɐ/
mutuca is a Portuguese feminine 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 mutuca mean in English?
noun
- 1
Brazilfemininehorsefly (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 mutuca
- mutucas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce mutuca?
- Brazil /muˈtu.kɐ/
- Portugal /muˈtu.kɐ/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to mutuca
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is mutuca in Portuguese?
mutuca appears about once in every 13 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).