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say it: pi-nuh-TOO-boh
pinatubo is a noun meaning "a volcano on Luzon to the northwest of Manila; erupted in 1991 after 600 years of dormancy". It is pronounced /pɪnəˈtuboʊ/ — pi-nuh-TOO-boh. It carries one recorded sense.
a volcano on Luzon to the northwest of Manila; erupted in 1991 after 600 years of dormancy
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pinatubo come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.