cenote

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The word cenote is derived from the Mayan word D´zonot.

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  1. noun A water-filled limestone sinkhole of the Yucatán.

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  • The word cenote is derived from the Mayan word D´zonot. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • This cenote was much bigger and deeper and had stairs descending onto a wooden deck in the middle. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • We swam around the side of the cenote and discovered that if we dived down, we could see the walls curving into massive underwater cavern that slipped away into blackness. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Further around on the other side of the cenote there was a cave that we swam into, which joined another much smaller sinkhole on the other side. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • He took us through the convent section and outside to a grotto from which we could peer down into a gigantic cenote far below. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
 

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  1. American Spanish, from Yucatec ts'onot.

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  1. Yucatan Spanish, < Maya conot.
 

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/sɛˈnoʊtɛ/
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