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Definition of Barkhans
1. barkhan [n] - See also: barkhan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barkhans
Literary usage of Barkhans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chinese Central Asia: A Ride to Little Tibet by Henry Lansdell (1893)
"FROM MERV TO THE OX US. Further railway favours,.—Journey through sand barkhans
and desert stations, 48.—Guest at Amu-daria with Colonel ..."
2. The Emir of Bokhara and His Country: Journeys and Studies in Bokhara (with a by Ole Olufsen (1911)
"In these clay plains are sand hills (barkhans) of no considerable extension, ...
The barkhans stretch in a belt along the river from a little south of Kerki ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"In the barkhans on the road from Merv to Boyun-uzun this is not the case ; here,
... The axis of the barkhans runs north-east and south-west, ..."
4. Explorations in Turkestan: With an Account of the Basin of Eastern Persia by Raphael Pumpelly (1905)
"The railroad crosses a tract of typical crescentic dunes (barkhans) before ...
According to Russian observers, the form of the barkhans has a seasonal ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"They consist of soft sandstones, mostly horizontal, which are covered, especially
in the neighbourhood of the Yellow river, by low hills and barkhans (low ..."
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