ponor
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A natural surface opening associated with karst.
Example Sentences
- "As long as the total capacity q of the spring is smaller than the total capacity q₂ of the ponor, no flooding of the polje will occur."
- "The only permanent sea ponor in the world is the sea mill of Argostoli, located on Kefalonia Island in the Ionian Sea (Greece) (Glanz, 1965)."
- "Ponors are one of the symbol features of karst regions, and crucial features from a hydrogeological and geotechnical point of view."
- "The characteristic features of the ponors of glaciokarst mainly manifest in the fact that they were mostly formed in karstic depressions or in glacial erosional depressions."
Etymology
From Serbo-Croatian.
Word Breakdown
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