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karstic.

Adjective
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Having terrain shaped by the dissolving of rock, often with caves, sinkholes, and underground drainage.

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  • karstic landscape
  • karstic terrain

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The karstic terrain concealed deep channels beneath the fields.
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Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Normally non-gradable; no ordinary comparative or superlative. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.

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