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hydrothermal vents

hydrothermal vents is the plural of hydrothermal vent.

Meaning of hydrothermal vent

Noun

hydrothermal vent (plural hydrothermal vents)

  1. a hot spring, on the floor of the ocean, mostly along the central axes of the mid-ocean ridges, where heated fluids emerge from fissures in the Earth's crust.
    • Everything fed from the heat and chemistry oozing from hydrothermal vents.2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 37

Questions about hydrothermal vents

What is hydrothermal vents the plural of?
Hydrothermal vents is the plural of hydrothermal vent.

Words near hydrothermal vents in the dictionary

  1. hydrotherapist
  2. hydrotherapists
  3. hydrotherapy
  4. hydrothermal
  5. hydrothermal vent
  6. hydrothermal vents
  7. hydrothermalism
  8. hydrothermally
  9. hydrothermic
  10. hydrothermolysis
  11. hydrotherophyte

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