butte

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈbʌt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top. US
    — Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].

词形变化

buttes plural

词源

PIE word
*bʰudʰmḗn
Borrowed from French butte (“mound”). Related to butt via a West Germanic cognate.
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