"kipuka" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Hawaiian kīpuka.",
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      "form": "kipukas",
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          "text": "There’s a word Trevor once told me about, one he learned from Buford, who served in the navy in Hawaii during the Korean War: kipuka. The piece of land that’s spared after a lava flow runs down the slope of a hill—an island formed from what survives the smallest apocalypse.",
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        "A zone of unharmed land completely surrounded by lava flows."
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        "(geology) A zone of unharmed land completely surrounded by lava flows."
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          "sense": "zone of unharmed land",
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          "word": "óbrennishólmi"
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          "sense": "zone of unharmed land",
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          "word": "dagala (Sicilan)"
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      "word": "óbrennishólmi"
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