mogote

[prettygoodword]

mogote (muh-GOH-tee) n., an isolated steep-sided hill surrounded by flat alluvial plains; (SW US) a patch of brush or thickly grown shrubbery.


Both senses are from Latin American Spanish, from the same word (meaning a knoll or a conical pile of fagots/sheaves, probably from Basque) imported twice. The second is the one I'm familiar with, since that's my regional dialect now (I'm an import myself). Here's a pair of the first type in Cuba:


Thanks, WikiMedia!

(Yeah, I know, not as photogenic as a pacu.)

---L.

Comments

[lokifan]

Thanks, now I know the word! I saw these in Cambodia.

[prettygoodword]

Cool.