hornito
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of hornito
1820–30; < Spanish, equivalent to horn ( o ) oven (< Latin furnus, fornus; see furnace) + -ito diminutive suffix
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Every minute or so, bursts of black beads splashed out of the hornito, tumbling down the sides.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
It was Sergeant Cardono, who moved about whistling softly, now attending to the steaming olla, now watching the rising bread in the hornito.
From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
The crater was about 200 yards across, stratified brownish cliffs encircling a moonscape of rough formations and sculpted hornitos in multiple shades of gray and white.
From New York Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
He went to the bottom of the crater, and observed a slight evolution of sulphurous acid vapors, but the "hornitos" had entirely ceased to send forth steam.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
M. Bonpland, with courage and patience well worthy of praise, dried hundreds of plants, shut up in these hornitos of the Indians.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von
Until lately, the formation of the great cone of Jorullo was attributed to the same kind of action as the hornitos, but later travellers have established the fact that this is incorrect.
From Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern by Tylor, Edward Burnett
Jorullo, hornitos de, 230. p 369 Justinian, conjectures on the physical causes of volcanic eruptions, 243.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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