picadura
Portuguese, noun/pi.kaˈdu.ɾɐ/
picadura is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “sting, bite (chiefly from insects)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “ação e ato de picar”.
What does picadura mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininesting, bite (chiefly from insects)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. ação e ato de picar
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 picadura
- picaduras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce picadura?
- Brazil /pi.kaˈdu.ɾɐ/
- Portugal /pi.kɐˈdu.ɾɐ/
- Portugal [pi.kɐˈðu.ɾɐ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is picadura in Portuguese?
picadura appears about once in every 95 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).