Milpa (noun)
mil-pa
(in certain tropical regions) a tract of land cleared from the jungle, usually by burning, farmed for a few seasons, and then abandoned.
1835–45, Americanism;Mexican Spanish
Example sentences
“We laid out crops in the milpa.”
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