karst
/kɑːst/noun
mass noun
- Geology landscape underlain by limestone which has been eroded by dissolution, producing ridges, towers, fissures, sinkholes and other characteristic landforms【地质】喀斯特：
as modifier karst topography喀斯特地貌
count noun it was strange country, broken into hummocks and karsts and mesas.这是一个地貌奇特的地区, 分布着波状地形、喀斯特地形和平顶山地形。
派生词
karstic
adjectivekarstification
nounkarstify
verb （-ies, ied）词源
late 19th cent.: from German der Karst, the name of a limestone region in Slovenia.