gramadulla

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English

Gramadullas

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Noun

gramadulla (plural gramadullas)

  1. (geomorphology, Namibia) Arid terrain characterized by numerous alternating canyons and gorges.
    • 1958, Henno Martin, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, The Sheltering Desert, New York: Thomas Nelson, pages 65-66:
      the word “gramadulla [] seemed to express just the bleak desolation of those grey-capped masses of rock and the wild labyrinth of those innumerable gorges and ravines.
    • 1971, Jillian Becker, The Union, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter 4, p. 248,
      Perhaps it was Lisa, who had become a huntress, who chased him on; across the plains and down the gramadulla gorges, and through the shade of granite dykes.
    • 2002, Andrew Goudie, chapter 6, in Great Warm Deserts of the World: Landscapes and Evolution, Oxford University Press, page 155:
      ephemeral rivers like the Swakop are deeply incised into the plains, producing gorges and areas of badlands (locally called gramadullas)

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