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PRONUNCIATION OF MOTUCA

motuca  [məʊˈtuːkə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MOTUCA

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
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Motuca is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES MOTUCA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Motuca

Coordinates: 21°30′29″S 48°09′04″W / 21.50806°S 48.15111°W / -21.50806; -48.15111 Motuca is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 is 4,164 and the area is 230.89 km². The elevation is 618 m. This place name comes from the Tupi language. Sports Auto racing ▪ Autódromo José Carlos Pace ▪ Ayrton Senna Football ▪ FPF ▪ Campeonato Paulista de Futebol ▪ Série A2 ▪ Série A3 ▪ Segunda Divisão ▪ Copa Paulista ▪ Corinthians ▪ Palmeiras ▪ Ponte Preta ▪ Portuguesa ▪ Santos ▪ São Paulo Cities of São Paulo by population Capital ▪ São Paulo 1,000,000+ ▪ Campinas ▪ Guarulhos 500,000+ ▪ Osasco ▪ Ribeirão Preto ▪ Santo André ▪ São Bernardo do Campo ▪ São José dos Campos ▪ Sorocaba 200,000+ ▪ Americana ▪ Araraquara ▪ Barueri ▪ Bauru ▪ Carapicuíba ▪...

Definition of motuca in the English dictionary

The definition of motuca in the dictionary is a Brazilian horsefly, Lepiselaga crassipes.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MOTUCA


bazooka
bəˈzuːkə
blucher
ˈbluːkə
farruca
fəˈruːkə
involucre
ˈɪnvəˌluːkə
kanuka
ˈkɑːnuːkə
Luca
ˈluːkə
lucre
ˈluːkə
manuka
ˈmɑːnuːkə
melaleuca
ˌmɛləˈluːkə
noctiluca
ˌnɒktɪˈluːkə
nucha
ˈnjuːkə
palooka
pəˈluːkə
pooka
ˈpuːkə
puker
ˈpjuːkə
sambuca
sæmˈbuːkə
snooker
ˈsnuːkə
stooker
ˈstuːkə
taluka
tɑːˈluːkə
verruca
vɛˈruːkə
Yokosuka
ˌjəʊkəʊˈsuːkə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MOTUCA

motorway
motorway restaurant
motorway service station
motory
motoscafo
Motown
mots justes
motser
mott
motte
mottle
mottled
mottled umber
mottler
motto
mottoed
motty
motu
motu proprio
motza

WORDS THAT END LIKE MOTUCA

Africa
America
ca
Cauca
chica
circa
coca
Costa Rica
Dominica
Jamaica
Juan de Fuca
Nevado de Toluca
North America
Pachuca
Rebecca
South Africa
South America
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Toluca
veronica

Synonyms and antonyms of motuca in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «motuca» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MOTUCA

Find out the translation of motuca to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of motuca from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «motuca» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

motuca
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

motuca
570 millions of speakers

English

motuca
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

motuca
380 millions of speakers
ar

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motuca
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

motuca
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Motuca
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

motuca
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

motuca
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Motuca
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

motuca
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

motuca
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

motuca
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Motuca
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

motuca
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

motuca
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मोट्यूका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

motuca
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

motuca
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

motuca
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

motuca
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

motuca
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

motuca
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

motuca
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

motuca
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

motuca
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of motuca

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MOTUCA»

The term «motuca» is normally little used and occupies the 115.742 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MOTUCA» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «motuca» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «motuca» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about motuca

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MOTUCA»

Discover the use of motuca in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to motuca and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Homes without hands, a description of the habitations of animals
dozen Motuca flies may be seen clustering upon the ankle, just above the shoe. The Monedula destroys multitudes of the Motuca flies, and will travel for half a mile in order to procure its prey, always taking care to close the entrance of its ...
John George Wood, 1865
2
Homes Without Hands: Being a Description of the Habitations ...
Whenever the Motuca can attack a human being, it dashes at him, settles, and in a moment drives a broad, sharp-edged lancet through the skin, cutting quite a gash, and causing the blood to flow fast. Fortunately, the wound is not very painful, ...
John George Wood, 1866
3
Homes Without Hand Being a Description of the Habitations of ...
dozen Motuca flies may be seen clustering upon the ankle, just above the shoe. The Monedula destroys multitudes of the Motuca flies, and will travel for half a mile in order to procure its prey, always taking care to close the entrance of its ...
‎1865
4
Brazil Official Standard Names Approved by the United States ...
cóRReGo MoTUcA. cóRReGo Do see MoTUcA. RIeeTRÃo DA MoTUcA. RxReTRÃo see MUTUcA. cóRReso MoTUcA. RTaexRÃo MoTUcA. RxeeTRío DA see MUTUcA. RxsexRÃo DA MoTUcA. RxaelRÃo DA MoTUcA. RlaeTRÃo DA ...
United States. Office of Geography, 1963
5
The Sea and the Jungle
But the motuca fly is a nuisance during the afternoon sleep. It is nearly of the size and appearance of a "blue-bottle" fly, but its wings, having black tips, look as though their ends were cut off. The motucas, while we slept, would alight on the ...
Henry Major Tomlinson, 1912
6
Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists
The brick-red colors are the most striking characteristic of the Motuca shales and sandstones. The Motuca is an alternating sequence of these shales and sandstone with thin dolomites and limestones. Three prominent, 3-20-meter thick  ...
‎1964
7
Fossil Conchostraca of the Southern Hemisphere and ...
Locality: Motuca Formation (Upper Triassic), road from Floriano to Almirante, Piaui, Brazil. Discussion: The only photograph among those contributed by Cardoso representing syntype DGP 7-989 apparently corresponds to his 1962 line ...
Paul Tasch, 1987
8
A Catalogue of the Library of the Athenaeum, Liverpool
(Plac) Motuca? Descriptio, in qua Motuca? Urbis et ipsius Comitatus initinm, loca, districtus, fontes, &c &c atque insignium virorum pietas, doctrina, nobilitas, et gesta breviter describuntur ac delineantur. Inveges (Aug.) Carthago Sicula, sive ...
Athenaeum (Liverpool, England), Liverpool (England). Athenaeum Library, George Burrell, 1820
9
Saline Deposits: A Symposium based on Papers from the ...
The Triassic Motuca Formation, consisting of a great thickness of red shales and sandstones, is present in the northeastern part of the continent in the Maranhao, Piaui, or Parnaiba Basin. The Caxias Member of the Motuca Formation, in the ...
Richard B. Mattox, W. T. Holser, 1968
10
The Naturalist on the River Amazons: A Record of Adventures, ...
It is a member of the Tabanidce family, and indeed is closely related to the Haematopota pluvialis, a brown fly which haunts the borders of woods in summer time in England. The Motuca is of a bronzed-black colour; its proboscis is formed of a ...
Henry Walter Bates, 1863

REFERENCE
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