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Area of barren lava flows, in the Southwest
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malpais
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks 2 land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Malpaís can refer to: Malpaís (landform) The Malpais Legate, a.k.a. Joshua Graham, character in Fallout: New Vegas , a video game
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Malpais \Mal"pais`\, n. [Cf. Sp. mal, malo, bad, and pa['i]s country.] (Geol.) The rough surface of a congealed lava stream. [Southwestern U. S.]
Usage examples of malpais.
Do you suppose an invalid would traipse around the malpais after dark?
Parker, the superintendent at El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico, was only too happy to talk.
Out on the malpais that day they went on the picnic, it had blown around her face.
Ute reservation, then roared into New Mexico and across the mesa high above Malpais Arroyo.
A late-afternoon storm was gathering over the malpais, the black and broken lava field that was all that remained of the fury of a volcanic eruption uncounted millennia ago.
In twenty minutes, he was on the road heading for Malpais Springs, a cool night wind in his face.
Shamrock reflected as he pulled Blue off the road and headed for Malpais Springs.
They reached Malpais Springs at suppertime, and had not got past the town limits before their strange cavalcade started to attract a crowd.
Ditto or unfinished mortar of the malpais for grinding chili and other ingredients for sauce.
When we hit the Malpaís, we’ll ride up onto the lava where tracking is difficult.
It wasn’t a pass, exactly, but there was definitely a narrow gap in the Malpaís near the northern end of the Fra Cristóbals.
If he got away across the malpais into the Sierra Madre they must just as well forget him.