English Explanatory Dictionary

Devils Postpile

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. An unusual rock formation of columnar basalt near Mammoth Mountain in Eastern California, United States, the site of a national monument.

Word forms

Devils Postpile

Etymology

The monument was established in 1911 as "Devil Postpile National Monument" (no possessive) but is widely referred to as "Devils Postpile National Monument", and has been officially styled as plural without the apostrophe since the 1930s. An alternate historic name was Devil's Woodpile.

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