milpa

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A cyclical crop-growing system used throughout Mesoamerica. uncountable
    — Milpa is based on seed crops, particularly the uniquely productive combination of maize, beans and squash, and in the past its techniques were normally those of swidden cultivation.
  2. A small field, especially in Mexico or Central America, that is cleared from the jungle, cropped for a few seasons, and then abandoned for a fresh clearing. countable
    — These three plants are often grown together in a single field called a milpa, the beans creeping up the corn stalks while the squash plants catch along the lower leaves of the corn plants.

词形变化

milpas plural

词源

Borrowed from Spanish milpa, from Classical Nahuatl.
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