Wind Cave National Park

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A national park in South Dakota with limestone caves and bison herds

proper noun
/wɪnd keɪv ˈnæʃənl pɑrk/

: Parque Nacional Wind Cave

Many tourists visit Wind Cave National Park each year to explore its unique underground formations.

Examples

Rangers at Wind Cave National Park offer guided tours of the limestone caves.
The bison herds roaming Wind Cave National Park are one of the park’s main attractions.
I visited Wind Cave National Park last summer.
Have you ever been to Wind Cave National Park?
Many tourists visit Wind Cave National Park each year to explore its unique underground formations.
Rangers at Wind Cave National Park offer guided tours of the limestone caves.
The bison herds roaming Wind Cave National Park are one of the park’s main attractions.

Surface Forms

Wind Cave National Park main

Morphology

wind + cave + national + park

This is a descriptive proper name formed from transparent constituents: 'wind' + 'cave' indicate a cave associated with wind, and 'national park' indicates a government-designated protected area. Such place-name composition is cross-linguistically common and readily interpretable by a B1 learner who knows the component words.

Etymology

Wind Cave National Park gets its name from the strong air, the wind, that blows at the entrance to its underground cave. Early visitors said the cave seemed to 'breathe' as air moved in and out, so the park was named for this windy cave and today the name points to the park's famous caves and bison.