chimenea

• chiminea

From Spanish chimenea, from French cheminée. Doublet of chimney.

chimenea (plural chimeneas)

1. A Mexican outdoor oven with bulbous body and usually a vertical smoke vent or chimney.
   • 2015 April 3, Alan Titchmarsh, “Why you should get outdoors this Easter: A garden should be a joy so embrace guilty pleasures from hot tubs to fire pits this spring [print version: Guilty pleasures of outdoor living, 4 April 2015, p. G3]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening)‎:

     Time was when every smart urban patio was equipped with one of those gas-burning heaters of the type found outside London cafés. In this age of sensitivity to global warming we've come to be wary of them […] , but somehow those strange little chimineas seem to have warmed the hearts of the nation. I've always found them a bit odd looking – like something from The Hobbit – and you do need to position them where they can do their job without endangering life, limb and property.

• Manichee

chimenea f (plural chimenees)

1. chimney (vertical tube or hollow column; a flue)

From French cheminée. Cognate with English chimney.

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃimeˈnea/ [t͡ʃi.meˈne.a]

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• Rhymes: -ea
• Syllabification: chi‧me‧ne‧a

chimenea f (plural chimeneas)

1. chimney
2. smokestack (of a train or factory)
3. funnel (of a ship)
4. fireplace, fireside, hearth

   Synonym: hogar

• limpiachimeneas

• → English: chimenea

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