Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A water-filled limestone sinkhole of the Yucatán.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A natural underground reservoir of water, such as is found in the limestone of Yucatan, used by the natives for drawing water: the presence of such reservoirs determines the location of the larger villages.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A deep
natural well orsinkhole , especially inCentral America , formed by thecollapse of surfacelimestone that exposesground water underneath, and sometimes used by the ancientMayans forsacrificial offerings.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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The term cenote is a Spanish rendering of the Mayan word d'zonot, "a hole in the ground".
Did you know? Mexico has the deepest water-filled sinkhole in the world, in Tamaulipas. 2008
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The term cenote is a Spanish rendering of the Mayan word d'zonot, "a hole in the ground".
Did you know? Mexico has the deepest water-filled sinkhole in the world, in Tamaulipas. 2008
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The sinkhole or cenote is one of several located in the same area, though recent studies have failed to demonstrate any obvious underground connections between them.
Did you know? Mexico has the deepest water-filled sinkhole in the world, in Tamaulipas. 2008
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The sinkhole or cenote is one of several located in the same area, though recent studies have failed to demonstrate any obvious underground connections between them.
Did you know? Mexico has the deepest water-filled sinkhole in the world, in Tamaulipas. 2008
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The entrance fee into the cenote was about a dollar.
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The entrance fee into the cenote was about a dollar.
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Calderon also straps on scuba tanks to lead Greenberg into a sinkhole lake known as a cenote in Yucatan.
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Calderon also straps on scuba tanks to lead Greenberg into a sinkhole lake known as a cenote in Yucatan.
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Calderon also straps on scuba tanks to lead Greenberg into a sinkhole lake known as a cenote in Yucatan.
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"For the next two weeks, the fully autonomous robot, which bears an uncanny resemblance to a Volkswagen Beetle, will plumb the previously inaccessible microbial mysteries of the sinkhole -- or "cenote" -- El Zacatón.
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