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 Portugalaustral - the basic unit of money in Argentina; equal to 100 centavos cruzeiro - the basic unit of money in Brazil; equal to 100 centavos dobra - the basic unit of money on Sao Tome e Principe lempira - the basic unit of money in Honduras; equal to 100 centavos metical - the basic unit of money in Mozambique; equal to 100 centavos boliviano - the basic unit of money in Bolivia; equal to 100 centavos cordoba - the basic unit of money in Nicaragua; equal to 100 centavos Cuban peso, peso - the basic unit of money in Cuba; equal to 100 centavos Dominican peso, peso - the basic unit of money in the Dominican Republic; equal to 100 centavos quetzal - the basic unit of money in Guatemala; equal to 100 centavos sucre - the basic unit of money in Ecuador; equal to 100 centavos |