mogote

[ muh-goh-tee ]

noun

a residual hillock of limestone, honeycombed with cavities.
Southwestern U.S. a patch of thickly grown brush or dense shrubbery.

Origin of mogote

¹

First recorded in 1925–30; from Central American Spanish, Spanish: “knoll, stack of sheaves”

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How to use mogote in a sentence

At the mogote, however, we were already near the Parracho highway and at once struck into it.
In Indian Mexico (1908) | Frederick Starr

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