MEANING
Having terrain shaped by the dissolving of rock, often with caves, sinkholes, and underground drainage.
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Words that belong together
- karstic landscape
- karstic terrain
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The karstic terrain concealed deep channels beneath the fields.
Word forms
- Base
- karstic
Usage notes
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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