Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The native name of the floating gardens once common on the Mexican lakes. They were carefully constructed rafts covered with earth, on which plants were cultivated.
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- noun historical A
floating island in a shallow lake bed, upon which crops were grown.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Another installation - part of the Mexican exhibit - will show an ancient Meso-American agricultural technique, chinampa, which is a method of growing crops in rectangular beds.
News24 Top Stories 2010
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A 'chinampa' like system of landfilled plots inside the water body can be used to grow crops and flowers for sale at the local markets.
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Over this long dimension, there are four types of water, a 'chinampa' like area, an urban lake, a high andean lacustrine lake, or paramo, and the tilted planes of water on the ends.
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They are all gone now, at any rate, though the name of _chinampa_ is still applied to the gardens along the canal.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor
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Vessels like their own, but with lanterns of stained aguave at the prows, seeking some favorite chinampa, sped by with benisons from the crews.
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In a flat-bottomed boat tied to a willow tree, Crispin Matteos Galicia hauls up sediment in a plastic bucket to fertilize squash seedlings for his chinampa, an island farm built in the shallow waters flowing from the Lake of the Aztec Kings.
The Seattle Times 2012
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In a flat-bottomed boat tied to a willow tree, Crispin Matteos Galicia hauls up sediment in a plastic bucket to fertilize squash seedlings for his chinampa, an island farm built in the shallow waters flowing from the Lake of the Aztec Kings.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN 2012
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But the number of chinampa farmers in Tlahuac has dwindled as the borough has grown and urbanized and residents increasingly make their living in more modern professions.
SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter By MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN 2012
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But the number of chinampa farmers in Tlahuac has dwindled as the borough has grown and urbanized and residents increasingly make their living in more modern professions.
The Seattle Times 2012
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Every chinampa forms an oblong square about three hundred feet in length, and eighteen or nineteen feet broad.
Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe William Bingley 1798
qms commented on the word chinampa
From gauchos abroad on the pampas
To peons afloat on chinampas,
As cowboys iconic
Or hands hydroponic
Hispanics have many estampas.
October 24, 2015