tubérculo
Portuguese, noun/tuˈbɛʁ.ku.lu/
tubérculo is spelled T-U-B-É-R-C-U-L-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 5 million words in written Portuguese, the 68,701st most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tubérculo is a Portuguese masculine noun meaning “tuber (fleshy underground stem)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “excrescência que aparece em qualquer lugar da planta, mas principalmente na raiz”.
What does tubérculo mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetuber (fleshy underground stem)
- 2
masculinetubercle (small rounded protuberance on certain plants)
- 3
masculinetubercle (small rounded protuberance on a bone)
- 4
masculinetubercle (small nodule produced by tuberculosis)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. excrescência que aparece em qualquer lugar da planta, mas principalmente na raiz
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 tubérculo
- tubérculos plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tubérculo?
- Brazil /tuˈbɛʁ.ku.lu/
- Brazil [tuˈbɛh.ku.lu]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tubérculo
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tubérculo in Portuguese?
tubérculo 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).