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Popocatepetl

Popocatepetl is the alternative spelling of Popocatépetl.

Meaning of Popocatépetl

Proper noun

Popocatépetl

  1. An active volcano in Mexico, located southeast of Mexico City.
    • Far to his left, in the northeast, beyond the valley and the terraced foothills of the Sierra Madre Oriental, the two volcanoes, Popocatepetl and Ixtaccihuatl, rose clear and magnificent into the sunset.1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 5

Questions about Popocatepetl

What is Popocatepetl the alternative spelling of?
Popocatepetl is the alternative spelling of Popocatépetl.

Words near Popocatepetl in the dictionary

  1. popmaize
  2. popmobility
  3. popo
  4. Popoca
  5. Popocas
  6. Popocatepetl
  7. Popocatépetl
  8. popodam
  9. popodams
  10. popodom
  11. popodoms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Popocatepetl (page history and authors); Popocatépetl (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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