hornito

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, emitting smoke and vapours from its sides and summit.
    — When Humboldt visited this place, the natives assured him that the heat of the hornitos had formerly been much greater. The thermometer rose to 203° when placed in the fissures exhaling aqueous vapour.

词形变化

hornitos plural hornitoes plural

词源

Diminutive from Spanish horno (“oven”), from Latin furnus. See furnace.
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