malpais

See also: malpaís

English

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Etymology

From Spanish malpaís, from mal (“bad”) + país (“land”).

Noun

malpais (countable and uncountable, plural malpaises)

  1. (geology) Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
  2. (geology) Land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil.

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