buttes

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Butte
a city in Montana
butte
an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top
butte
a conspicuous hill, low mountain, or natural turret, generally isolated
butte
An isolated hill or mountain with steep or precipitous sides, usually having a smaller summit area than a mesa
butte
a hill with steep sides and a flat top in the western US (from bute ). (French: "hillock" or "rising ground") Flat-topped hill surrounded by a steep cliff, from the bottom of which a slope descends to the plain. The term is sometimes used for an elevation higher than a hill but not high enough to be a mountain. Buttes topped by horizontal platforms of hard rock are characteristic of the arid plateau region of the western U.S. A butte is similar to a mesa but generally smaller; both are created by erosional processes
butte
A hill or very small mountain that is flat topped and steep sides all around
butte
a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides
butte
An isolated hill rising abruptly above the surrounding land
butte
a hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding region; has a flat top and sloping sides
butte
A butte is a flat-topped rock or hill formation with steep sides
butte
{i} solitary hill or mountain rising suddenly from the surrounding countryside
butte
a town in southwestern Montana; center for mining copper
butte
A conspicuous, isolated, flattop hill with steep slopes
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A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region
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A narrow flat-topped hill of resistant rock with very steep sides Probably formerly a mesa
butte
A solitary hill or mountain which has extremely steep sides
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