tableland
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- noun
- /ˈteɪbəlˌlænd/
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meseta
- We stood on a broad, high, bare tableland; the horizon was an immense distance away.
- Atherton Tableland
Examples
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Also in the Atherton Tableland, at higher altitudes, prototypical maypole builders, Golden Bowerbirds (Amblyornis newtonianus), can be found.
Academic text (2004) -
The trailhead was a long way across the tableland, and it was a miserable hike through the long shadows of the last part of the day, the sky already darkening with the sun still up, a lenticular cloud over Navaho Mountain glowing the color of the canyons, every little wave of it a perfectly drawn French curve.
Fiction book (1991) -
Since this whole tableland was under cultivation, there were reservoir ponds everywhere.
Fiction book (2002) -
The first Wasichu to see this tableland were Coronado's conquistadores.
Fiction book (1995) -
Roughly the northern half of the area, which was subjected to at least three glaciations during the last million years, is a tableland, the Pocono Plateau.
Academic text (2011) -
The tablelands are still mostly in crops, principally wheat and sorghum, and the side slopes are in pasture.
Academic text (1991) -
Since it was not possible to get enough to eat in Okubo on a watchman's salary, my father-in-law and his family determined to move to the mountains not far from the Akiyoshi tableland in Yamaguchi Prefecture.
Fiction book (2002) -
Further along the Atherton Tableland, there were reports of a Great Bowerbird (Chlamydera nuchalis) romancing multiple females in his characteristic avenue-type bower.
Academic text (2004) -
Roy Funch, a local ecologist and guide, is hunting for something he spotted from a helicopter last year: some remains of the frontier-mining culture that gave this region its name, the Chapada Diamantina, or diamond tablelands.
Academic text (2007) -
We drove through the flat expanse of the tableland, where the landscape stretched endlessly before us.
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Etymology
Tableland comes from table ('flat board') and land ('ground'), so it means high ground with a flat top, like a big natural table.