mallin

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish mallín.

Noun

mallin (plural mallins or mallines)

  1. A type of wetland in Patagonia.
    • 1914, Northern Patagonia: Character and Resources, volume 1, page 107:
      It is therefore not an uncommon sight to see the bones of cattle among the verdant green grasses of the mallins.
    • 1941, Fred Albert Carlson, Geography of Latin América, page 159:
      In the north they are called bajos and in the south mallins.
    • 2004, A. Mugetti, Patagonian shelf, page 942:
      Other ecosystems at risk due to anthropogenic activities are the flood meadows so called "mallines". The mallines are wetlands in arid and semi-arid regions.
    • 2015 October 9, “Environmental Quality and Aquatic Invertebrate Metrics Relationships at Patagonian Wetlands Subjected to Livestock Grazing Pressures”, in PLOS ONE‎, →DOI:
      If climate-change predictions that involve an increase of temperature together with reductions in precipitation are borne out, the result will be a severe reduction of suitable areas for mallines in NW Patagonia.

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Verb

mallin

  1. inflection of mallar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Finnish

Noun

mallin

  1. genitive singular of malli

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