kipuka

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A zone of unharmed land completely surrounded by lava flows.
    — 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.

词形变化

kipukas plural kipuka plural kapuka alternative

词源

From Hawaiian kīpuka.
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