A Maori oven consisting of a hollow in the earth in which food is cooked on heated stones.
乌姆炉（毛利人炉具，在地洞里用热石块加热）
Example sentencesExamples
Food is prepared in an umu, an oven dug in the earth and filled with firewood and basalt rocks.
I know how to prepare an umu or earth oven.
In an out-door pit that Tongans call an umu, a whole pig is roasted with foods like chicken, fish, meat, sweet potatoes, fish and taro (a starchy tuber).
Similar ovens were constructed by the Maori in New Zealand but, although they were called umu ti, the plant baked was a different species, the New Zealand cabbage tree, Cordyline australis.
The feast is overflowing with pork, delivered whole on spits from underground umu ovens.
Origin
Maori.
Definition of umu in US English:
umu
nounˈo͝omo͞o
A Maori oven consisting of a hollow in the earth in which food is cooked on heated stones.
乌姆炉（毛利人炉具，在地洞里用热石块加热）
Example sentencesExamples
Similar ovens were constructed by the Maori in New Zealand but, although they were called umu ti, the plant baked was a different species, the New Zealand cabbage tree, Cordyline australis.
In an out-door pit that Tongans call an umu, a whole pig is roasted with foods like chicken, fish, meat, sweet potatoes, fish and taro (a starchy tuber).
I know how to prepare an umu or earth oven.
Food is prepared in an umu, an oven dug in the earth and filled with firewood and basalt rocks.
The feast is overflowing with pork, delivered whole on spits from underground umu ovens.