hydrothermal vent

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noun hydrothermal vent an opening on the floor of the sea from which hot, mineral-rich solutions issue. Compare vent1 (def 2). 1
noun hydrothermal vent a hot spring, on the floor of the ocean, mostly along the central axes of the mid-ocean ridges, where heated fluids emerge from fissures in the Earth's crust. 0

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