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Meaning of "spelean" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SPELEAN

spɪˈliːən


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPELEAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spelean is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPELEAN

Achillean · Bodleian · Caribbean · Carolean · Damoclean · eon · Fijian · Galilean · Heraclean · Heraklean · herculean · Ismailian · Korean · lien · Periclean · pleon · Sophoclean · spelaean · thalian · Tyrolean

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPELEAN

spelaean · spelaeological · spelaeologist · spelaeology · spelaeothem · speld · speldin · speldrin · speleological · speleologist · speleology · speleothem · speleotherapy · spelk · spell · spell a paddock · spell out · spellable · spellbind · spellbinder

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPELEAN

Boolean · cerulean · Chilean · clean · come clean · day-clean · deep clean · dry-clean · glean · house-clean · lean · Maclean · Mephistophelean · spring-clean · squeaky-clean · superclean · the Galilean · ultraclean · unclean · wipe the slate clean

Synonyms and antonyms of spelean in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spelean» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPELEAN

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The translations of spelean from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spelean» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

spelean
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

espeleológico
570 millions of speakers
en

English

spelean
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

spelean
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

spelean
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

spelean
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

spelean
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

spelean
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

spéléologique
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Spelean
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

spelean
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

spelean
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

spelean
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Spelean
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

spelean
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

spelean
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

क्षुल्लक
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

spelean
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

speleo
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

spelean
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

spelean
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

speologic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

spelean
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spelean
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spelean
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spelean
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spelean

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPELEAN»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spelean

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPELEAN»

Discover the use of spelean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spelean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Museums and Memory
Obverse Experience Boundary ^Spelean Disc Atmonic Disc The "Hollows" All living things have a Cone of Obliscence by which the being experiences experience. This cone is sometimes also known as the Cone of True Memory ( and ...
Susan A. Crane, 2000
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The biology of hypogean fishes
The blind cave fish that never was. Nat. Speleol. Soc. News 57: 180-181. Romero , A. 1999b. Myth and reality of the alleged blind cave fish from Pennsylvania. J. Spelean Hist. 33: 67-75. Romero. A. 2000. The speleologist who wrote too much.
Aldemaro Romero, Aldemaro Romero Díaz, 2001
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Encyclopedia of Caves and Karst Science
Journal of Spelean History, 15:36—37 Rafinesque, C. 1832. The caves of Kentucky. Atlantic Journal, 1: 27—30 Shaler, N. 1876. Antiquity of the Caverns and Cavern Life of the Ohio Valley, Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky Geological Survey ...
John Gunn, 2004
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Carbonates in Continental Settings: Geochemistry, Diagenesis ...
... diversity and often support rare plant, animal and microbial communities. Spelean calcites occur in caves and may be of great age. Both epigean and spelean facies are frequently associated with important fossil faunas and floras.
‎2009
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Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland
Standard Printing Co., 1933): 59; Marjorie C. Douglas, "Shelter from the Atomic Storm: The National Speleological Society and the Use of Caves as Fallout Shelters, 1940-1965," Journal of Spelean History 30:4, 91-106. 8. Samuel Cole ...
Michael E. Birdwell, W. Calvin Dickinson, 2004
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Robertson's Words for a Modern Age: A Cross Reference of ...
... spelae-, spel-, -spelean, -spelaean (Gk. > L., cave, cavern) Also see antro- for other "cave" words. Qualifying words: biospeleologist, biospe- leology, spelaeological, spelaeologist, spe- laeology, speleobiologist, speleobiology, spe - laeology ...
John G. Robertson, 1991
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Carbonate Sedimentology
Petrol. 52, 1127-1147. Ferguson, J., Chambers, L.A., Donnelly, T.I-l. & Burne. R.V. (1988) Carbon and oxygen isotope composition of a recent mcgapolygon— spelean limestone, Fisherman Bay, South Australia. Chem Geol. 72, 63-76. Fischer ...
Maurice E. Tucker, V. Paul Wright, 2009
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Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science
Using precise and accurate Useries dating techniques to establish the age of the spelean calcite defines the period of time when the cave was positioned above the sea surface. While all speleothems must have formed at some elevation ...
Scott Elias, Cary Mock, 2013
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Travertine
Spelean dams also have shorter pools on steeper gradients but the dam height tends to increase as a result of more rapid deposition (Veni 1994; Hill and Forti 1997). A general rule therefore applies; steeper slopes support smaller dams with ...
Allan Pentecost, 2005
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Minerals of Nevada
Gold Mine in the Currant district; also noted as mammillary and coarsely crystalline spelean calcite from the Gold Point Mine and in a large mass of coarsely crystalline breccia about i km southwest of the Gold Point Mine. (UCB; Castor and ...
Stephen B. Castor, Gregory C. Ferdock, 2004

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SPELEAN»

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Avoiding Stress And Taxes In The Cayman Islands (VIDEO)
Though not a deep cave, Peter's has its share of fairy tale beauty and spelean riches. The flowstones look like melting cake icing; the cave coral like popcorn; the ... «Huffington Post, Nov 12»
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NYFF: Fritz Lang's The Tiger of Eschnapur and Michael Haneke's …
It's indeterminate--and irrelevant, for the setting is really a India of the collective storybook imagination, its imagery a decoupage of spelean underground ... «Village Voice, Oct 12»
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Stalagmites reveal rapid sea level change
When the level dropped, the stalagmites formed from water drops from the cave ceiling (spelean calcite). Dutton says the difference between the two types of ... «ABC Science Online, Apr 09»
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