pintado
pintado · pintados · pintadoes
The Cape petrel, Daption capenseThe Cape petrel, Daption capense.
Meaning
4 senses(countable, uncountable)The Cape petrel, Daption capense.
(countable, uncountable)A guinea fowl, especially as food.
(countable, uncountable)Any of various spotted fishes in tropical waters of the west Atlantic, especially the cero, Scomberomorus regalis.
(archaic, countable, historical, uncountable)A fine cotton cloth; chintz.
a pintado quilt
More definitions
- large edible mackerel of temperate United States coastal Atlantic waters
Origin
From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).From Portuguese pintado (literally “painted”).
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Forms
plural: pintados / pintadoesSynonyms
3 synonymsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.