tarn
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She said the animal is likely to have been kept at a pet, ending up in the tarn when owners struggled to keep up with its care demands or decided they did not want it.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2024
A lake that is confined to a glacial cirque is known as a tarn such as Silver Lake near Brighton Ski resort located in Big Cottonwood Canyon or Avalanche Lake in Glacier National Park.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
I learned that a tarn is a pond, a gill is a stream, and duckboards are slats across boggy ground.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 19, 2015
When we came upon a tarn, or alpine lake, we stopped in our tracks, entranced by an oval frame of water reflecting dark forest, blue skies and the snow-covered ridges of mountain peaks.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2011
In one place a forest of giant madrone trees joined their tops over a true tarn, a black, spring-fed lake.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing tarn
Physical Geography - High School
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