tableland
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of tableland
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East Asia - Middle School
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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
Old Castile covers the northern part of Spain's bleak, sun-scorched central tableland.
From Time Magazine Archive
He is to look down upon river, lake, jungle, snow-capped mountain, desert, steppe, tableland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roraima they found themselves on a remarkably flat tableland, 12 miles square, something like the flat land of Arizona through which the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River cuts.
From Time Magazine Archive
The two rivers which determine the character and nature of the depression between the Syrian plateau and the tableland of Iran rise at no great distance from each other on the mountains of Armenia.
From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Max Duncker
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