Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A rough and rocky district, especially in a volcanic region.

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  • noun Mexico & Western U.S. A lava field.

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  • noun A lava field.

Etymologies

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Spanish, a stony place, from piedra stone.

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  • The college ideal's medieval.

    Though all crave relations "collegial,"

    Now academe's groves

    Are turned profit troves

    Are blasted to barren pedregal.

    April 28, 2017