单词 | cañada |
释义 | cañadan.2 Chiefly in the south-western United States: a narrow valley or gully; a ravine or small canyon. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > valley > [noun] > gorge or ravine cloughc1330 heugha1400 straitc1400 gillc1440 gulfa1533 gull1553 gap1555 coomb1578 gullet1600 nick1606 goyle1617 gully1637 nullah1656 ravine1687 barrancaa1691 kloof1731 ravin1746 water gap1756 gorge1769 arroyo1777 quebrada1787 rambla1789 flume1792 linn1799 cañada1814 gulch1832 cañon1834 canyon1837 khud1837 couloir1855 draw1864 box canyon1869 sitch1888 tangi1901 opena1903 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). < n.21814 |
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