Word.ws English Dictionary

tafone

tafone noun: a small cave-like feature found in granular rock such as sandstone.

Noun

tafone (plural tafoni)

  1. A small cave-like feature found in granular rock such as sandstone.

Forms of tafone

pluraltafoni

Origin of tafone

Perhaps from Ancient Greek τάφος (táphos, “tomb”), or perhaps from the Corsican or Sicilian taffoni (“holes”), or tafonare (“to perforate”).

Questions about tafone

What does tafone mean?
Tafone means a small cave-like feature found in granular rock such as sandstone.
What part of speech is tafone?
Tafone is a noun.
What is the plural of tafone?
The plural of tafone is tafoni.

Words near tafone in the dictionary

  1. TAFKAP
  2. tafluprost
  3. Tafo
  4. Tafolla
  5. Tafollas
  6. tafone
  7. tafoni
  8. tafonomic
  9. Tafoya
  10. Tafoyas
  11. TAFRO syndrome

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tafone (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “tafone.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tafone. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.