páramo

páramo
m.
high plateau, bleak upland, bare land, moor.
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páramo
nombre masculino
1 moor
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SM
1) (=brezal) bleak plateau, high moor
2) (=descampado) waste land
3) And (=llovizna) drizzle; (=tormenta) blizzard
4) Caribe (=cumbres) mountain heights pl
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masculino high plateau, bleak upland o moor
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= wilderness, wasteland, moor.
Ex. The town of Wexler was hacked out of the wilderness, and for many years it stood alone in the forest, a halting place in the long stagecoach journey from eastern localities to the unknown West.
Ex. Eliot somehow suggests that a mix of blood and electricity might yet redeem the petty materialism of the modern world that he had previously seen only as a wasteland.
Ex. The emperor moth is a European moth that lives in moors.
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masculino high plateau, bleak upland o moor
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= wilderness, wasteland, moor.

Ex: The town of Wexler was hacked out of the wilderness, and for many years it stood alone in the forest, a halting place in the long stagecoach journey from eastern localities to the unknown West.

Ex: Eliot somehow suggests that a mix of blood and electricity might yet redeem the petty materialism of the modern world that he had previously seen only as a wasteland.
Ex: The emperor moth is a European moth that lives in moors.

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páramo
masculine
high plateau, bleak upland o moor
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páramo sustantivo masculino
high plateau, bleak upland o moor
páramo sustantivo masculino moor
'páramo' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
odisea
- puna
English:
moor
- moorland
- waste
- wilderness
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páramo nm
1. [terreno yermo] highland, upland area;
los páramos the highlands
2. [lugar solitario] wilderness
3. Col, Ecuad, Ven Fam [llovizna] drizzle
4. Col, Ven [cordillera] Andean highlands
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páramo
m upland moor
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páramo nm
: barren plateau, moor
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páramo n moor

Spanish-English dictionary. 2013.

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