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jameo

jameo noun: a large hole (or sink) formed when the roofs of multiple levels of a lava-tube cave collapse, found most notably in the Canary Islands.

Noun

jameo (plural jameos)

  1. A large hole (or sink) formed when the roofs of multiple levels of a lava-tube cave collapse, found most notably in the Canary Islands.
    • […] volcanic landscape and lived underground in the many tunnels and jameos that flowing lava had created. However, when the conquerors arrived they were surprised to find a mixture of caves and clumsily constructed stone houses […]2004, Lucy Corne, Canary Islands, page 25
    • [page 66:] […] lava fields there are also frequent structures such as lava channels, mounds and mega-tubes, volcanic tubes and microtubes, jameos, lava terraces, lava cascades, rafted mound, erratic block, lateral and frontal levées—initial […]
      [page 137:] […] lava tubes—like the several jameos of...2019, Elena Mateo, Jesús Martínez-Frías, Juana Vegas, Lanzarote and Chinijo Islands Geopark: From Earth to Space

Forms of jameo

pluraljameos

Origin of jameo

From (Canary Islands) Spanish jameo.

Questions about jameo

What does jameo mean?
Jameo means a large hole (or sink) formed when the roofs of multiple levels of a lava-tube cave collapse, found most notably in the Canary Islands.
What part of speech is jameo?
Jameo is a noun.
What is the plural of jameo?
The plural of jameo is jameos.

Words near jameo in the dictionary

  1. jamdannies
  2. jamdanny
  3. jamdhar
  4. jamdhars
  5. jameed
  6. jameo
  7. jameos
  8. Jamerican
  9. Jamericans
  10. Jamerson
  11. Jamersons

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