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tepetates

tepetates is the plural of tepetate.

Meaning of tepetate

Noun

tepetate (plural tepetates)

  1. A soil type found in volcanic regions, known for hardness, poor drainage, and poor fertility.
    • Where erosion has reduced the soil layer to less than planting depth or to exposed tepetate, farmers may break up and pulverize the tepetate with plows, picks, crowbars, sledgehammers, or even black powder, to form a usable soil layer.1990, Gene C. Wilken, Good Farmers: Traditional Agricultural Resource Management in Mexico and Central America

Questions about tepetates

What is tepetates the plural of?
Tepetates is the plural of tepetate.

Words near tepetates in the dictionary

  1. Tepehuas
  2. Tepelenë
  3. Tepenixtlahuaca
  4. tepes
  5. tepetate
  6. tepetates
  7. Tepetitán
  8. tepetlacalli
  9. tepetlacallis
  10. Tepexpan
  11. tephigram

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