HOT SPRING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hot spring mean? 

• HOT SPRING (noun)
  The noun HOT SPRING has 1 sense:

1. a natural spring of water at a temperature of 70 F or above

  Familiarity information: HOT SPRING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOT SPRING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A natural spring of water at a temperature of 70 F or above

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

hot spring; thermal spring

Hypernyms ("hot spring" is a kind of...):

fountain; natural spring; outflow; outpouring; spring (a natural flow of ground water)

 Context examples 

The research also has major implications for the search for life on Mars, because the red planet has ancient hot spring deposits of a similar age to the Dresser Formation in the Pilbara.

(First Life Ever on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Scientists believe the 25 percent loss in genetic material resulted from adaptation by the red algae's ancestor to an extreme environment such as a hot spring or low-nutrient habitat.

(Red seaweeds, including those in sushi, thrive despite ancestor's loss of genes, National Science Foundation)

Fossils discovered by The University of New South Wales (UNSW) scientists in 3.48 billion-year-old hot spring deposits in the Pilbara region of Western Australia have pushed back by 580 million years the earliest known existence of microbial life on land.

(First Life Ever on Land: 3.48 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)