transgênico
Portuguese, adjective
transgênico is spelled T-R-A-N-S-G-Ê-N-I-C-O (11 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 59,000th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Transgênico is a Portuguese adjective meaning “Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of transgénico” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, transgénico is a different word: “transgenic (genetically modified)”. The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “que sofreu manipulação ou modificação genética artificialmente”.
What does transgênico mean in English?
adjective
- 1
Brazilian Portuguese standard spelling of transgénico
adjective
- 1
transgenic (genetically modified)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. que sofreu manipulação ou modificação genética artificialmente
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 transgênico
- transgénica feminine
- transgénicos masculine plural
- transgénicas feminine plural
- transgênico alternative Brazil
- transgênica feminine
- transgênicos masculine plural
- transgênicas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to transgênico
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is transgênico in Portuguese?
transgênico appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).