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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A fissure on the floor of a sea from which flows mineral-rich water that has been heated by underlying magma, forming a precipitate of minerals and providing an ecosystem for extremophiles.
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- noun a
hot spring , on the floor of theocean , mostly along the centralaxes of themid-ocean ridges , where heated fluids emerge fromfissures in theEarth 'scrust
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