Wiktionary
n. (plural of milpa English)
Wikipedia
The acronym MILPAS originally stood for , fighting alongside the Sandinista National Liberation Front against the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle. However, after his overthrow, some disaffected MILPAS veterans revived it as the , one of the earliest rebel groups that would form the contra movement.
Usage examples of "milpas".
Most such milpas or small truck fields in these parts were tilled by Mexican hoe farmers.
For even as he passed some corn milpas flattened by the recent storm, he spied others where, from some natural whim, the green young cornstalks still stood proud in the morning sun.
Longarm didn't see any serious stock, Or serious stockmen, on the modest Mexican milpas this close to Escondrijo.
They'd passed the last corn milpas north of town, and the tree-shaded wagon trace was surrounded by spartina reeds to seaward and thickets of gumbo-limbo saplings on the higher ground to their left.
He was sure he had more answers than he really did as he tore out to the west with his saddle gun cocked across his knees, eyes peeled for ambush from the cactus hedges around the small milpas he tore by.
Farmers out hunting and others working in their milpas saw them and reported them to me.