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tepuy

tepuy is the alternative form of tepui.

Meaning of tepui

Noun

tepui (plural tepuis or tepuies)

  1. A type of table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela.
    • Once a population becomes adapted to the tepui summit environment, it is more likely to colonize other areas with similar environmental conditions, so it would need to disperse between tepui summits to expand its geographical range.2005, P. E. Berry, R. Riina, Insights into the diversity of the Pantepui flora and the biogeographic complexity of the Guayana Shield, Ib Friis, Henrik Balslev (editors), Plant Diversity and...

Forms of tepuy

pluraltepuys

Questions about tepuy

What is tepuy the alternative form of?
Tepuy is the alternative form of tepui.

Words near tepuy in the dictionary

  1. Tepui tinamou
  2. Tepui tinamous
  3. tepuian
  4. tepuies
  5. tepuis
  6. tepuy
  7. tepuys
  8. teqball
  9. teqe
  10. Tequendama
  11. tequesquite

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