malpais

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Land akin to badlands, but having volcaniclastic rather than sedimentary rocks.
2. noun Land having an underlayer of basaltic lava and little or no soil.

Similar words

malapi tepetate pillow lava marlstone metavolcanics peperino volcanite basalte lava volcaniclastic

Often followed by

national and bill is lava rock was spring