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una serie de mesetas “muelas” y cumbres

English translation: a series of tablelands/mesas, buttes and peaks

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Spanish term or phrase:	una serie de mesetas “muelas” y cumbres
English translation:	a series of tablelands/mesas, buttes and peaks
Entered by:	Adam Burman

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18:47 Jan 27, 2007

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Spanish term or phrase: una serie de mesetas “muelas” y cumbres

Esta es una comarca de complicada topografía, donde los ríos han labrado profundos valles que la fragmentan en una serie de mesetas “muelas” y cumbres más o menos planas, alternadas por profundos valles denominados “hoces” de increíble belleza, labrados por los ríos, Júcar, Cuervo, Guadiela y Escabas.

Adam Burman KudoZ activity Questions: 1315 (1 open) (6 closed without grading) Answers: 375 United Kingdom
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a series of tablelands/mesas, buttes and peaks

Explanation:
Buttes are like a small mesa.

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bigedsenior
Local time: 19:54

Grading comment

Thanks Ed!
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Summary of answers provided

4 +1

a series of mounded plateaus and flattened summits

patricia scott

4 +1

a series of plateaux with escarpments and of peaks

translatol

a series of tablelands/mesas, buttes and peaks

bigedsenior

a series of molar-shaped mesas and flattened ridges

jlrsnyder

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23 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

a series of mounded plateaus and flattened summits

Explanation:
this is what I think they're called

...smooth forms - gentle curved summits
Did a lot of National Geographic translations -

patricia scott
Spain
Local time: 04:54
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English
PRO pts in category: 48

23 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

a series of plateaux with escarpments and of peaks

Explanation:
Perhaps someone will come up with something better, but the point here is that 'muela' doesn't mean 'molar'. It means "Cerro escarpado en lo alto y con cima plana" (DRAE).

translatol
Local time: 03:54
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PRO pts in category: 12

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agree

Patricia Rosas: you are right (I erased my answer), but I'm not very keen on your phrasing. Maybe "steep plateaux and peaks"

27 mins

-> I like your wording for its simplicity, but the DRAE gives an accurate definition. I've visited the area and know what they look like: definitely not stumpy, which is what 'molar' would suggest, nor just 'mounds' as Patricia Scott says.

neutral

patricia scott: I know the area well myself. The problem is it doesn't say meseta escarpada, I'm sorry, but I still insist that mesetas muelas are mounded and I don't think peaks quite describes cumbres más o menos planas.Sorry.

3 hrs

-> Please see the relevant definition in the Diccionario de la Real Academía Española. Furthermore, I've visited the area in question and know what they look like. The text doesn't say 'escarpada' but the DRAE does.

3 hrs confidence:

a series of molar-shaped mesas and flattened ridges

Explanation:
The term 'mesa' is used in English to describe the flat-topped mountains found in Arizona and New Mexico. Vermonters favor the word 'ridge' to describe the tops of their mountains.

jlrsnyder
Local time: 23:54
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English

3 hrs confidence:

a series of tablelands/mesas, buttes and peaks

Explanation:
Buttes are like a small mesa.

bigedsenior
Local time: 19:54
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 124

Grading comment

Thanks Ed!

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