pessegueiro
Portuguese, noun/pe.seˈɡe(j).ɾu/
pessegueiro is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “peach (Prunus persica, a fruit-bearing tree)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “árvore do gênero Prunus persica, cujo fruto é o pêssego, ou malacatão”.
What does pessegueiro mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinepeach (Prunus persica, a fruit-bearing tree)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. árvore do gênero Prunus persica, cujo fruto é o pêssego, ou malacatão
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 pessegueiro
- pessegueiros plural
- pessigueiro alternative dialectal
- pissigueiro alternative dialectal
- pexegueiro alternative dialectal
- pexigueiro alternative dialectal
- prexigueiro alternative dialectal
- pusseguêro alternative dialectal
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce pessegueiro?
- Brazil /pe.seˈɡe(j).ɾu/
- Brazil [pe.seˈɡe(ɪ̯).ɾu]
- Portugal /pɨ.sɨˈɡɐj.ɾu/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to pessegueiro
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is pessegueiro in Portuguese?
pessegueiro appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).