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‖ pedregal|ˌpɛdrɛˈgæl, ˈpɛdrɛgəl|
Also erron. pedragal.
[Sp. pedregal ‘a stonie place’ (Minsheu), f. piedra stone = L. petra.]
In Mexico and south-western U.S., A rough and rocky tract, esp. in a volcanic region; an old lava-field. Also transf. An ice-field resembling such a tract.
1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxiii. (1856) 289, I am struck more and more with the evidences of gigantic force in the phases of our frozen pedragal. 1856― Arct. Expl. I. 197 An area more like the volcanic pedragal of the basin of Mexico than any thing else I can compare it to. 1881Bryant & Gay Pop. Hist. U.S. IV. xiv. 378 His [Santa Anna's] position was flanked on the west by a rugged field of broken lava, called the Pedregal, and on the east by marshy ground. |