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malpais

malpais noun: land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.

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 malpais

pluralmalpaises
alternative formmalpaís

Origin of malpais

From Spanish malpaís, from mal (“bad”) + país (“land”).

Questions about malpais

What does malpais mean?
Malpais means land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
What part of speech is malpais?
Malpais is a noun.
What is the plural of malpais?
The plural of malpais is malpaises.

Words near malpais in the dictionary

  1. Maloufs
  2. Malouines
  3. Malovăț
  4. Maloy
  5. Maloys
  6. malpais
  7. malpaises
  8. malparkage
  9. malparries
  10. malparry
  11. Malpas

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