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mesetiform

mesetiform adjective: having a plateau at the top and steep sides.

Adjective

mesetiform (comparative more mesetiform, superlative most mesetiform)

  1. Having a plateau at the top and steep sides.
    • It is more Sandy than the Ludlow and begins, at least in north-central Harding County, with a thick fine-grained sand, poorly indurated with limy cement where it forms the thick caprock of the mesetiform Table Mountain, Eagles Nest Butte, North and South Cave Hills and Outliers.1950, Bruno Carl Petsch, Loyd A. Carlson, Magnetic observations in South Dakota, page 84
    • It includes 2 mesetiform elevations and a small isolated hill that surrounds a lake basin (Mazzanti and Bonnant 2013).2018, Juan Manuel Arcusa, Armando Cicchino, “Third Argentine record of Eurhopalotrhix bruchi (Santschi, 1922)(Hymenoptera, Formicidae), description of an interomorphic queen and the colony, and notes...

Forms of mesetiform

comparativemore mesetiform
superlativemost mesetiform

Origin of mesetiform

Borrowing from Spanish

Questions about mesetiform

What does mesetiform mean?
Mesetiform means having a plateau at the top and steep sides.
What part of speech is mesetiform?
Mesetiform is an adjective.

Words near mesetiform in the dictionary

  1. meseta
  2. mesetas
  3. mesethmoid
  4. mesethmoidal
  5. mesethmoids
  6. mesetiform
  7. Mesfin
  8. Mesfins
  9. Mesgegra
  10. mesh
  11. mesh analysis

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