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kolk

kolk noun: an underwater vortex similar to a whirlwind, capable of dislodging, picking up, and moving boulders.

Noun (1)

kolk (plural kolks)

  1. An underwater vortex similar to a whirlwind, capable of dislodging, picking up, and moving boulders.

Noun (2)

kolk (plural kolks)

  1. A relatively small water-filled depression, especially in a bog: a bog pond, a bog eye, a bog kolk.
    • […] bogs, but only around pools or kolks. The small-scale mosaic of hummocks and hollows so characteristic of the true raised bog is nowhere to be found on a wooded bog. The quaking bog community on the kolk edge, similar to that[…]1988 July 29, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 341
    • […] bog hollows and kolks.1998, R. S. Ambasht, Modern Trends in Ecology and Environment

Proper noun capitalized: Kolk

Kolk (plural Kolks)

  1. A surname.

Forms of kolk

Noun
pluralkolks
Proper noun
pluralKolks

Origin of kolk

Borrowed from Dutch kolk.

Borrowed from Low German Kolk, possibly via German Kolk. Cognate with Dutch kolk.

From the Dutch and German surname, from Kolk (“bog, watering hole”) (see below).

Questions about kolk

What does kolk mean?
Kolk means an underwater vortex similar to a whirlwind, capable of dislodging, picking up, and moving boulders.
What part of speech is kolk?
Kolk can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of kolk?
The plural of kolk is kolks.

Words near kolk in the dictionary

  1. kolinsky
  2. Kolis
  3. koliva
  4. koliwada
  5. koliwadas
  6. kolk
  7. Kolkata
  8. Kolkatan
  9. Kolkatans
  10. Kolker
  11. Kolkers

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