chinampa

From Spanish chinampa, from Classical Nahuatl chināmitl (“cane fence”).

chinampa (plural chinampas)

1. (historical, in ancient Mesoamerica) A floating island in a shallow lake bed, upon which crops were grown.

• Panchami, champian

From Classical Nahuatl chināmpan, from chināmitl (“cane fence”) + -pan (“on”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃiˈnampa/, [t͡ʃiˈnãmpa]

chinampa f (plural chinampas)

1. (Mexico) Each of the artificial islands employed in the chinampa method of agriculture. Such islands were often built on wooden rafts during the pre-Columbian era.

As a whole, the chinampa method of agriculture is often termed sistema de chinampas or simply chinampas in Spanish, whereas chinampa specifically refers to the tracts of land.

• chinampero

• “chinampa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.