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milpa (mil)

noun

Chiefly Dial. a small tract of arable land cleared from a forest area; specif., in Mexico and Central America, such a tract that is cultivated until the land is exhausted, then abandoned

Etymology: MexSp (< Nahuatl), cornfield

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