tali
9.9
Heaps of loose rock and soil at the foot of cliffs
- noun
- /ˈtɑːli/
- Specialized
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tali
- Heavy rainfall caused the tali to shift and block the hiking path.
Examples
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Plants slowly began to grow among the tali scattered below the steep cliffs.
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The geologists carefully climbed over the tali at the foot of the mountain.
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The tali are steep.
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Look at those tali!
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The geologists carefully climbed over the tali at the foot of the mountain.
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Heavy rainfall caused the tali to shift and block the hiking path.
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Plants slowly began to grow among the tali scattered below the steep cliffs.
Synonyms
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9.3
A slope of loose rocks at the bottom of a cliff
is the plural form referring to multiple such slopes or heaps
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tali is the plural of talus, a word that came to mean a sloping heap of loose rock at the base of a cliff, or 'slope'. Think of a cliff dropping small stones that form a skirt at its foot — those piles are tali, so the origin explains the modern meaning as rocky slopes.