“nino”

The following 2 entries include the term nino.

El Niño

noun

: an irregularly recurring flow of unusually warm surface waters from the Pacific Ocean toward and along the western coast of South America that prevents upwelling of nutrient-rich cold deep water and that disrupts typical regional and global weather patterns compare la niña

santo niño

noun

: an image of the Christ child


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