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butte

[byoot]

noun Western U.S. and Canada.

an isolated hill or mountain rising abruptly above the surrounding land.

Origin:
1650–60, Americanism; < North American French; French: low hill, mound, Old French: landmark, target, apparently feminine derivative of but butt²

Can be confused: beaut, butte, Butte.

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Example Sentences

But when part of a butte or other landform breaks away, seeds can take root and water is retained in the slumped area.

Butte uses data from gene chips that measure which genes are active, or expressed, in a cell.

Actually, it is a double arch, with the larger span on the end of a buttress that juts from the main sandstone butte.

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noun

a city in SW Montana: mining center. 37,205.

Can be confused: beaut, butte, Butte.

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butte (bjuːt)

—n
	(Western US), (Canadian) an isolated steep-sided flat-topped hill

[C19: from French, from Old French bute mound behind a target, from but target; see butt²]

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Word Origin & History

butte

1805, Amer.Eng., from Fr. butte, from O.Fr. but "mound, knoll" (see butt (n.3)). A French word introduced in Lewis & Clark's journals.

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