butte

Etymology

PIE word *bʰudʰmḗn Borrowed from French butte (“mound”).

noun

  1. (US) An isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top.
    Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars]. 27 November 2013, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars”, in The New York Times

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