kipuka

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

"There’s a word Trevor once told me about, one he learned from Buford, who served in the navy in Hawaii during the Korean War: kipuka. The piece of land that’s spared after a lava flow runs down the slope of a hill—an island formed from what survives the smallest apocalypse."

From Hawaiian kīpuka.

kipukas (plural) kapuka (alternative)

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