Kolkとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

Borrowed from Dutch kolk.

名詞

kolk (plural kolks)

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

語源 2

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

名詞

kolk (plural kolks)

1. A relatively small water-filled depression, especially in a bog: a bog pond, a bog eye, a bog kolk.
   • 1988 July 29, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 341:

     […] 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 […]

   • 1998, R. S. Ambasht, Modern Trends in Ecology and Environment:

     […] bog hollows and kolks.