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El Nino

El Nino is the alternative form of El Niño.

Meaning of El Niño

Proper noun

El Niño (plural El Niños or Los Niños)

  1. An invasion of warm water into the surface of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Peru and Ecuador, the positive phase of the multi-year ENSO cycle, which causes changes in local and regional climate.
    • Additionally, scientists aren’t expecting to be surprised again by El Niño, a warming of the Pacific Ocean that tends to dampen Atlantic hurricane activity.2007 May 23, Houston Chronicle

Forms of El Nino

pluralEl Ninos

Questions about El Nino

What is El Nino the alternative form of?
El Nino is the alternative form of El Niño.

Words near El Nino in the dictionary

  1. El Monte
  2. El Moro
  3. El Moslawi
  4. El Mourouj
  5. El Nido
  6. El Nino
  7. El Niño
  8. El Niños
  9. El Oro
  10. El Paisnal
  11. El Paraíso

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Adapted from Wiktionary: El Nino (page history and authors); El Niño (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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