inselberg

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɪnsəlˌbɜːɡ/|/-zəl-/    美 /ˈɪnsəlˌbɝɡ/|/-zəl-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A monadnock (isolated mountain).
    — Click: forest elephant, stern and alert. Click: humpback whale, breaching skyward like a frisky trout. Click: Gaboon viper, its big coppery head so close to the lens you could almost feel the flick of its tongue. Click: granite inselberg, like a great igneous gumdrop, protruding above forest canopy. Click: bulge-eyed hippopotamus, almost unrecognizably strange and serene, riding a wave along the Atlantic coast.

词形变化

inselbergs plural inselberge plural

词源

From German Inselberg, from Insel (“island”) + Berg (“mountain”).
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