HyperDic: swallow_hole

English > 1 sense of the expression swallow hole:
NOUNobjectswallow hole, sinkhole, sinka depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof
English > swallow hole: 1 sense > noun 1, object
MeaningA depression in the ground communicating with a subterranean passage (especially in limestone) and formed by solution or by collapse of a cavern roof.
Synonymssinkhole, sink
Broadernatural depression, depressionA sunken or depressed geological formation
Spanishcenote, dolina
Catalanbòfia, dolina

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