karst
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Definition of karst
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
“In the time available to us on our geomorphological tour we were not able to see the higher and younger karsts of Kweichow and Yunnan and Kunming.”
“The shells are just 0.04 inch (one millimeter) long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed.”
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noun
-
A type of land formation, usually with many caves formed through the dissolving of limestone by underground drainage.
“In the time available to us on our geomorphological tour we were not able to see the higher and younger karsts of Kweichow and Yunnan and Kunming.”
“The shells are just 0.04 inch (one millimeter) long and were found on a karst formation where conditions are damp, but the snails that inhabit them have yet to be observed.”
name
- A mountainous karst plateau in northeastern Italy and southwestern Slovenia; in full, Karst Plateau.
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Etymology
Borrowed from German Karst. The German term and the Slovene placename Kras (the Karst Plateau) are from Proto-Slavic *korsъ, from Italo-Dalmatian carsus (cf. Italian carso), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ker- (“hard; rock”). More at Karst. The metathesis in the Slovene term precludes German borrowing from Slovene.
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