Definitions for chinampa

chinampa chi·nam·pa

Spelling: [chi-nam-puh]
IPA: /tʃɪˈnæm pə/

Chinampa is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 218 anagrams from letters in chinampa (aachimnp).

Definitions for chinampa

noun

  1. (in Mesoamerica) a long and narrow floating field on a shallow lake bed, artificially built up by layering soil, sediment, and decaying vegetation and used, especially by the Aztecs, to grow crops.

Origin of chinampa

1830-40; Mexican Spanish Nahuatl chinamitl area enclosed by canes + pa on

Examples for chinampa

Every chinampa forms an oblong square about three hundred feet in length, and eighteen or nineteen feet broad.

Up in the northeastern part of the little sea lay a chinampa at anchor.

The keeper of the chinampa was there with great bundles of flowers.

Besides that, he killed or wounded near a score of chinampa owners, and set their canoes adrift.

The light of the great torch, kindled by the keeper of the chinampa, revealed her perfectly.

Do you recollect the dream I told you the night on the chinampa?

In the quiet and perfumed shade of the chinampa he rested, and soothed the fever of his wound.

A chinampa was a floating island in the lake of Tezcuco, upon whose very bosom the imperial city was built.

The chinampa, at its anchorage, swung lightly, like an Indian cradle pendulous in the air.

Viewed from a distance, the chinampa looked like an island of flowers.

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