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box-canyon

box-canyon is the alternative form of box canyon.

Meaning of box canyon

Noun

box canyon (plural box canyons)

  1. A canyon which has a single access for entrance and exit, being otherwise enclosed on all sides by steep walls.
    • The Box Canyon was adequately named. It was a box, a trap.1912, Jack London, chapter 2, in Smoke Bellew

Forms of box-canyon

pluralbox-canyons

Questions about box-canyon

What is box-canyon the alternative form of?
Box-canyon is the alternative form of box canyon.

Words near box-canyon in the dictionary

  1. box-and-whisker plot
  2. box-and-whiskers plot
  3. box-bed
  4. box-beds
  5. box-calf
  6. box-canyon
  7. box-canyons
  8. box-car
  9. box-cars
  10. box-checker
  11. box-checkers

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