barchan

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English - Turkish
(Coğrafya) Yarımay şeklinde hareket eden çöl kumulu
barkan
English - English
An arc-shaped sand ridge comprised of well-sorted sand

The structure out here was revealed immediately—desert punctuated by oases in a geography of cruelty, barkhans or traveling sand-dunes a hundred feet high, which might or might not possess consciousness.

(Coğrafya) A crescent-shaped shifting sand dune, as found in the deserts of Turkestan
barchan

    Hyphenation

    bar·chan

    Etymology

    [ (")bär-'kän, -'[k ] (noun.) 1888. From Russian бархан, from Kazakh бархан.
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