English Explanatory Dictionary

polje

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An extensive depression having a flat floor and steep walls but no outflowing surface stream and found in a region having karst topography (as in parts of Yugoslavia).

Word forms

polje poljes

Etymology

From a Slavic language, ultimately from Proto-Slavic *poľe (“field”).

Synonyms

karst field
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