Butte definitions

Butte

1) Hill
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1) US copper center 2) Area of Besançon 3) Big sky country city 4) Center for mining copper 5) City in montana 6) City near Helena 7) City of the Rockies 8) Copper capital 9) Copper center of US 10) Desert feature 11) Desertscape prominence 12) Downsized mesa 13) Flat-topped elevation 14) Flat-topped formation
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Butte

• (n.) A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
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Butte

city, seat (1881) of Silver Bow county, southwestern Montana, U.S., on the western slope of the Continental Divide.[1 related articles]
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butte

flat-topped hill surrounded by a steep escarpment from the bottom of which a slope descends to the plain. The term is sometimes used for an elevation ...
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butte

Big Southern Butte, Idaho. Credit: U.S. Bureau of Land Management A small, flat-topped hill formed when erosion dissects a mesa.
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Butte

A narrow flat-topped hill of resistant rock with very steep sides. Probably formerly a mesa.
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Butte

A conspicuous hill with steep sides and a flat top. The top is usually a cap-rock of resistant mater
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butte

a flat-topped landscape feature with steep sides that is surrounded on all sides by lower areas
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Butte

Butte noun [ French See Butt a bound.] A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region. « The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. Ru...
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Butte

A somewhat isolated hill, usually capped with a resistant layer of rock and bordered by talus. A butte is an erosion remnant of a formerly more extensive slope.
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Butte

A butte is an isolated abrupt flat-topped hill found in the west USA.
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Butte

Butte is a soft, white French cheese with a thick white natural mould rind, made from cow's milk.
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butte

A steep sided and flat topped hill formed by erosion of flat laying strata where remnants of a resistant layer protect the softer rocks underneath.
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