kipuka
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- noun
- Specialized
- Look at that kipuka!
- Kipuka trail
Examples
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Eventually, Chuck leads me away from the lava and into the lush jungle of the kipuka.
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What a beautiful kipuka!
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Rare species of plants can survive in a kipuka after a volcanic eruption.
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Scientists studied the unique ecosystem within the kipuka surrounded by hardened lava.
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The hikers rested in a kipuka that was untouched by the recent lava flow.
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The park contains many species-rich enclaves, called kipukas, that exist between the fingers of recent lava flows.
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Within the park, in the middle of lava flows, are areas called kipuka, which were unmolested by the flows and left as pristine islands of life in the bleak, black desert.
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Etymology
Kipuka comes from Hawaiian and means 'little island' or 'isolated patch' of older land. So a kipuka today is a piece of ground left untouched and surrounded by lava after a volcanic eruption.