"kettle hole" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: kettle holes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} kettle hole (plural kettle holes)
  1. (geology) A depression in the ground occurring as the result of a large block of ice getting buried by glacial outwash and subsequent melting of it. Wikipedia link: Kettle (landform) Categories (topical): Geology Categories (place): Landforms Synonyms: kettle Related terms: kettle lake Translations (depression in the ground): понор (ponor) [masculine] (Bulgarian), suppa (Finnish), kettle (Spanish), marmita de gigante (Spanish), dödisgrop [common-gender] (Swedish), dödishåla [common-gender] (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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