[kɑːst], (Noun)

Definitions:
- landscape underlain by limestone which has been eroded by dissolution, producing ridges, towers, fissures, sinkholes and other characteristic landforms
(e.g: it was strange country, broken into hummocks and karsts and mesas)


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Origin:
late 19th century: from German der Karst, the name of a limestone region in Slovenia