tableland
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tableland
Vocabulary lists containing tableland
East Asia - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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In every direction, reddish-brown tableland sprawled to the horizon, broken here and there by pinyon-juniper forest.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2015
The former princely state of Hyderabad lies diamond-like on the plush-green tableland of southern India.
From Time Magazine Archive
Old Castile covers the northern part of Spain's bleak, sun-scorched central tableland.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the distance rises 2,117-foot Sutter Buttes, which passes for a mountain range in this sunbaked, mosquito-plagued tableland some 40 miles north of Sacramento.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thence we descended to the narrow tableland, where the grass was knee-deep and native villages were many.
From Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \"Big Fish,\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. by Gilson, Charles
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