Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

jameo

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: jameo
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large hole (or sink) formed when the roofs of multiple levels of a lava-tube cave collapse, found most notably in the Canary Islands.

Example Sentences

"[…] volcanic landscape and lived underground in the many tunnels and jameos that flowing lava had created. However, when the conquerors arrived they were surprised to find a mixture of caves and clumsily constructed stone houses […]"
"[page 66:] […] lava fields there are also frequent structures such as lava channels, mounds and mega-tubes, volcanic tubes and microtubes, jameos, lava terraces, lava cascades, rafted mound, erratic block, lateral and frontal levées—initial […] [page 137:] […] lava tubes—like the several jameos of the Corona system (Tonello 2017) and those in the Timanfaya National Park (Fig. 8)—present striking analogies with collapse chains on the volcanic edifices of Arsia and Olympus Mons on Mars (Fig. 10) […]"

Etymology

From (Canary Islands) Spanish jameo.

Origin

Source language: Spanish

Word Breakdown

Root: jameo

Inflected Forms

jameos (plural)

Questions

What does jameo mean?: A large hole (or sink) formed when the roofs of multiple levels of a lava-tube cave collapse, found most notably in the Canary Islands.
Where does jameo come from?: It is traced to Spanish.

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