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cliff-cave

cliff-cave is the alternative form of cliff cave.

Meaning of cliff cave

Noun

cliff cave (plural cliff caves)

  1. A natural rock shelter, sea cave, or man-made dwelling carved into the vertical face of a cliff and rock formation, ranging from ancient, historic cliff dwellings to dynamic coastal sea caves accessible by hiking or kayaking.
    • The wildest of British wild sports is the pursuit of the seal in the almost inaccessible cliff-caves to which it at times resorts.1904, John Tregarthen, “CHAPTER XIV: A MIDNIGHT VISIT TO THE SEAL-CAVES”, in Wild Life at the Land's End, Project Gutenberg

Forms of cliff-cave

pluralcliff-caves

Questions about cliff-cave

What is cliff-cave the alternative form of?
Cliff-cave is the alternative form of cliff cave.

Words near cliff-cave in the dictionary

  1. cliff swallows
  2. Cliff Vale
  3. Cliff's Notes version
  4. Cliff's Notes versions
  5. cliff-bound
  6. cliff-cave
  7. cliff-green
  8. cliff-hang
  9. cliff-hanger
  10. cliff-hangers
  11. cliff-hanging

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