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butte1 /bjuːt /noun North American & technicalAn isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top (similar to but narrower than a mesa).Located in southeastern Utah, Canyonlands encompasses high mesas and buttes, burnt red sandstone pinnacles and arches, and a myriad of canyons and deep gorges cut by the Green and Colorado Rivers....- He explained the difference between the mesas and buttes in the distance and challenged us to find images of birds, couples dancing joyfully, and snakes in the sticklike forms of petroglyphs.
- The park shows off some of the most striking landscapes of sandstone buttes, mesas, and spires in the entire Southwest.
OriginMid 19th century: from French, 'mound', from Old French but, of unknown origin (compare with butt2). Rhymesacute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute Butte2 /byo͞ot /A city in southwestern Montana, noted as a mining center; population 32,119 (est. 2008). |