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mil•pa  (mil′pə),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. (in certain tropical regions) a tract of land cleared from the jungle, usually by burning, farmed for a few seasons, and then abandoned.
  • Nahuatl mīlpan, equivalent. to mīl(li) cultivated field + -pan locative suffix
  • Mexican Spanish
  • 1835–45, American.

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