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chultun

chultun noun: a bottle-shaped underground storage chamber built by the pre-Columbian Maya in southern Mesoamerica, in some cases designed to collect rainwater.

Noun

chultun (plural chultuns or chultunes or chultunob)

  1. A bottle-shaped underground storage chamber built by the pre-Columbian Maya in southern Mesoamerica, in some cases designed to collect rainwater.

Forms of chultun

pluralchultuns
pluralchultunes
pluralchultunob

Questions about chultun

What does chultun mean?
Chultun means a bottle-shaped underground storage chamber built by the pre-Columbian Maya in southern Mesoamerica, in some cases designed to collect rainwater.
What part of speech is chultun?
Chultun is a noun.
What is the plural of chultun?
The plural of chultun is chultuns.

Words near chultun in the dictionary

  1. chullos
  2. chullpa
  3. chullpas
  4. Chulmleigh
  5. chulta
  6. chultun
  7. chultunes
  8. chultunob
  9. chultuns
  10. Chulym
  11. Chulyms

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