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malpaís

malpaís is the alternative form of malpais.

Meaning of malpais

Noun

malpais (countable and uncountable, plural malpaises)

  1. Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
  2. Land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil.

Forms of malpaís

pluralmalpaíses

Questions about malpaís

What is malpaís the alternative form of?
Malpaís is the alternative form of malpais.

Words near malpaís in the dictionary

  1. malparry
  2. Malpas
  3. Malpases
  4. Malpass
  5. Malpasses
  6. malpaís
  7. malpaíses
  8. Malpeque
  9. Malpeque Bay
  10. malperformance
  11. malperfusion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: malpaís (page history and authors); malpais (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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