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badlands
English
Etymology
Calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota mako sica (“land bad”), synchronically equivalent to bad +? lands.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?bæd.lændz/
Noun
badlands (plural badlands)
- (geomorphology) An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.
Synonyms
- desert
- moonscape
- malpaís
Translations
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malpais
English
Alternative forms
- malpaís
Etymology
From Spanish malpaís (mal (“bad”) + país (“land”))
Noun
malpais (countable and uncountable, plural malpaises)
- (geology) Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
- (geology) Land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil.
Anagrams
- impalas
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