Karst Definition

kärst
noun
A region made up of porous limestone containing deep fissures and sinkholes and characterized by underground caves and streams.
Webster's New World
pronoun

A mountainous region in northeastern Italy and southwestern Slovenia.

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Other Word Forms of Karst

Noun

Singular:
karst
Plural:
karsts

Origin of Karst

  • From German Karst. The German term most likely derives from the Slovene placename Kras (the Karst Plateau), although some scholars dispute this.

    From Wiktionary

  • German after the Karst , a limestone plateau near Trieste (where geologists first studied karstic landscapes)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From German Karst.

    From Wiktionary

Karst Sentence Examples

  • The classic tower karst of the Guilin area of Southern China is somewhat different.

  • Along the whole northern rim of Bosnia, as also in the fluvial and Karst valleys (poljes), are found diluvial and alluvial formations, interrupted at one place by an isolated granite layer.

  • Apart from the arid wastes of the Karst, the soil is well adapted for the growing of cereals, especially Indian corn; olives, vines, mulberries, figs, pomegranates, melons, oranges, lemons, rice and tobacco flourish in Herzegovina and the more sheltered portions of Bosnia.

  • The province of Croatia-Slavonia belongs mostly to the Karst region, and is traversed by the Dinaric Alps.

  • Trieste is situated at the northeast angle of the Adriatic Sea, on the Gulf of Trieste, and is picturesquely built on terraces at the foot of the Karst hills.

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Words Starting With

KKAKAR

Words Ending With

TSTRST

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