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centavo
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun centavo has 1 sense
- centavo(n = noun.quantity) - 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; is a kind of fractional monetary unit, subunit
is a part of austral, colon, el salvadoran colon, real, dobra, cape verde escudo, escudo, escudo, portuguese escudo, lempira, metical, boliviano, cordoba, colombian peso, peso, cuban peso, peso, dominican peso, peso, guinea-bissau peso, peso, mexican peso, peso, peso, philippine peso, peso, uruguayan peso, quetzal, sucre
CIDE DICTIONARY
centavo, n.
a fractional monetary unit of several countries such as El Salvador, St. Thomas and Principe, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, and Portugal. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
centavo, n. a small coin of Spain, Portugal, and some Latin American countries, worth one-hundredth of the standard unit.
Etymology
Sp. f. L centum hundred
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