CRUZEIRO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cruzeiro mean? 

• CRUZEIRO (noun)
  The noun CRUZEIRO has 1 sense:

1. the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos

  Familiarity information: CRUZEIRO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRUZEIRO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("cruzeiro" is a kind of...):

Brazilian monetary unit (monetary unit in Brazil)

Meronyms (parts of "cruzeiro"):

centavo (a fractional monetary unit of several countries: El Salvador and Sao Tome and Principe and Brazil and Argentina and Bolivia and Colombia and Cuba and the Dominican Republic and Ecuador and El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras and Mexico and Nicaragua and Peru and the Philippines and Portugal)