chi|nam|pa

chi|nam|pa
chi|nam|pa «chih NAM puh», noun.
1. (in Mexico and South America) a floating mass of filled-in land reclaimed from a pond or swamp by planting with aquatic vegetation.
2. an island of rich, moist earth dredged from a lake bottom by the Aztecs to be used in raising crops.
[< Mexican Spanish chinampa]

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