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barkhan

barkhan is the alternative spelling of barchan.

Meaning of barchan

Noun

barchan (plural barchans)

  1. (also, attributive) An arc-shaped shifting sand dune comprising well-sorted (uniformly sized) sand.
    • The sand is usually very well sorted in barchans, for it is constantly re-worked as the dune 'marches'. The marching also causes cross-bedding inside the barchan, with a dip parallel to the sand-fall face.1966, E[dwin] S[herbon] Hills, C[liff] D. Ollier, C[harles] R[owland] Twidale, “Geomorphology”, in E. S. Hills, editor, Arid Lands: A Geographical Appraisal (Routledge Revivals), New York, N.Y....

Forms of barkhan

pluralbarkhans

Questions about barkhan

What is barkhan the alternative spelling of?
Barkhan is the alternative spelling of barchan.

Words near barkhan in the dictionary

  1. Barkey
  2. Barkeys
  3. Barkha
  4. Barkham
  5. Barkhamsted
  6. barkhan
  7. barkhans
  8. Barkhausen
  9. Barkhausen effect
  10. Barkhausen effects
  11. Barkhouse

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barkhan (page history and authors); barchan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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