kipuka
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of kipuka
From the Hawaiian word kīpuka
Example Sentences
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If I continued following this road the next day, I thought, I would reach El Malpais’s largest kipuka, an islandlike ecosystem surrounded but untouched by the lava flows — called Hole-in-the-Wall.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2014
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