tarn.

A small lake in mountainous country, often occupying a hollow shaped by glaciation.

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Words that belong together

• mountain tarn
• dark tarn
• shore of a tarn

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A tarn reflected the ridge above it.

Mist drifted across the small mountain tarn.

They reached the tarn as the last sunlight left the rocks.

Usage notes

Primary category: environment. Forms: Singular tarn; plural tarns. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.