tepui
noun/ˈtɛpwi/
Etymology
From Spanish tepuy, from Pemon tüpü (“rocky system, mountain, tepui”), though sometimes erroneously said to be from Pemon tapüi (“house”) in the sense of ‘house of the gods’. Perhaps ultimately related to Proto-Cariban *tôpu (“stone”), though the Pemon etymon is not a direct descendant.
Definitions
A type of table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America,…
A type of table-top mountain or mesa found in the Guiana Highlands of South America, especially in Venezuela.
- One of the most dominant landscape features in the Gran Sabana is a flight of planation surfaces rising from modern sea level to the summits of the high tepui (Briceño and Schubert 1990).
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA