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单词 cañada
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cañadan.2

Brit. /kaˈnjɑːdə/, U.S. /kæˈnjɑdə/
Forms: 1800s cannada, 1800s canada, 1800s– cañada, 1800s– canyada.
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish cañada.
Etymology: < Spanish cañada broad shallow valley between two summits (c1460), specific sense development of cañada path along which cattle are driven (1255), probably < caña cane n.1 + -ada -ade suffix.
Chiefly in the south-western United States: a narrow valley or gully; a ravine or small canyon.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > gorge or ravine
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1814 H. M. Williams tr. A. von Humboldt Personal Narr. Trav. I. 149 Monte Verde is intersected by several small and very arid ravines (cannadas) [Fr. plusieurs petits ravins (cañadas)].
1826 J. Miers Trav. in Chile & La Plata I. 19 We had to pass a deep cañada, a sort of broad ditch in which rushes grow.
1850 B. Taylor Eldorado (1862) xiii. 131 Descending a long cañada in the mountains.
1895 H. A. Reid Hist. Pasadena 27 An old Spanish Mexican..was asked what ‘Canyada’ meant. He put his hands together, then opened them a little.., making a narrow trough shape.
?1928 Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci. 1922–8 31 153 The ancient village or villages..showing in..pottery fragments even across a canyada to the north.
1932 J. González in J. F. Dobie Tone Bell Easy (1965) 99 Down in the cañada, which runs by the ranch, doves coo.
2002 Smithsonian May 104/3 We begin trekking up an eroded, dry riverbed, then up a narrower dry-creek canyon, called a cañada.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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