英语词汇“butte”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

butte

释义

butte U.S.|bjuːt|
Also bute.
[a. F. butte a hillock or rising ground; cf. butt n.⁵]
In Western U.S.: An isolated hill or peak rising abruptly (see quot. 1845).
1838Parker Rocky Mts. 70 Red Bute, which is a high bluff.1845Frémont Rocky Mount. 145 (Bartlett) It [the word butte] is applied to the detached hills and ridges which rise abruptly, and reach too high to be called hills or ridges, and not high enough to be called mountains. Knob, as applied in the Western States, is their most descriptive term in English.1880Century Mag. xxiv. 510 Everything in the way of hill, rock, mountain, or clay-heap is called a butte in Montana.1881Geikie In Wyoming in Macm. Mag. XLIV. 236 Here and there isolated flat-topped eminences or ‘buttes’, as they are styled..rise from the plain.
attrib.1880Scribner's Mag. July 454 Broken down among the rocks of a stony bit of butte-road.

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