mesetiform

English

Etymology

Borrowing from Spanish

Adjective

mesetiform (comparative more mesetiform, superlative most mesetiform)

1. Having a plateau at the top and steep sides.
   • 1950, Bruno Carl Petsch, Loyd A. Carlson, Magnetic observations in South Dakota, page 84:

     It is more Sandy than the Ludlow and begins, at least in north-central Harding County, with a thick fine-grained sand, poorly indurated with limy cement where it forms the thick caprock of the mesetiform Table Mountain, Eagles Nest Butte, North and South Cave Hills and Outliers.

   • 2018, Juan Manuel Arcusa, Armando Cicchino, “Third Argentine record of Eurhopalotrhix bruchi (Santschi, 1922)(Hymenoptera, Formicidae), description of an interomorphic queen and the colony, and notes on biology and ecology”, in Check List, volume 14, number 2, page 331:

     It includes 2 mesetiform elevations and a small isolated hill that surrounds a lake basin (Mazzanti and Bonnant 2013).

   • 2019 April, Juan Pablo Donadei, “Local and nonlocal rocks: Technological strategies and raw material management. Hunter-gatherer mobility for mid-Holocene groups of eastern Tandilia range (Argentina)”, in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, volume 24:

     Mountain ranges located within the Formacion Balcarce formation, of mesetiform type with a NW-SE orientation and a maximum height of 400 m asl, stand out for their pronounced geographical features (valleys, openings and undulating plains.