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piolho da cabeça

Portuguese, noun

piolho da cabeça is spelled P-I-O-L-H-O-D-A-C-A-B-E-Ç-A (14 letters). Piolho da cabeça is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “pre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of piolho-da-cabeça; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). On this page, piolho-da-cabeça is a different word: “head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis, a louse that infects human…”.

What does piolho da cabeça mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinepre-reform spelling (used until 1990) of piolho-da-cabeça; still used where the agreement hasn’t come into effect and may occur as a sporadic misspelling

noun

as piolho-da-cabeça
  1. 1

    masculinehead louse (Pediculus humanus capitis, a louse that infects human scalps)

  2. 2

    masculineUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see piolho, da, cabeça.

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

Forms of piolho da cabeça

  • piolhos da cabeça plural
  • piolhos-da-cabeça plural
  • piolho-de-cabeça alternative
  • piolho da cabeça alternative
  • piolho de cabeça alternative

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

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