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El Nino
Spanish · 1800s
"the child"
literally the child, referring to the Christ child, since the warm ocean current typically appears around Christmas
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El Nino
English · 1890s
"a periodic warming of Pacific Ocean surface temperatures"
adopted directly by scientists for the periodic warm ocean current phenomenon
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