Definition of Barkans

1. barkan [n] - See also: barkan

Lexicographical Neighbors of Barkans

barium radioisotopes
barium solution
barium sulfate
barium sulfide
barium sulphate
barium swallow
barium thiocyanate
bariums
bark
bark-louse
bark beetle
bark beetles
bark louse
bark mixture
bark up the wrong tree
barkans (current term)
barkantine
barkantines
barkbound
barkcloth
barked
barkeep
barkeeper
barkeepers
barkeeping
barkeeps
barken
barkened
barkening
barkens

Literary usage of Barkans

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"At a certain distance from the villages the barkans are fully covered with a thick vegetation of ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"Dunes appear at the same time in the river-valley, and the surface of the sands is covered with barkans. These plains, which do not depend upon the work of ..."

3. The Mechanics' Magazine (1854)
"... be converted into a metal and a soluble iodide by any of the processes in use at present for the decomposition of metallic chlorides." barkans, JOSEPH ..."

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