Cookstove

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A stove used for cooking, especially a primitive kind heated by burning wood, charcoal, dung, etc.

    "Meronyms: stovetop, stovepipe"

  2. 2
    a stove for cooking (especially a wood- or coal-burning kitchen stove) wordnet

Synonyms

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cooker

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"Scientists at the University of Colorado in Boulder and Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, used satellites owned by the U.S. space agency NASA, along with supercomputers that modeled cookstove pollution country by country."

Etymology

From cook + stove.

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