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nounbarkhan (plural barkhans)
plural barkhans
- alternativeAlternative spelling of barchan.
The structure out here was revealed immediately—desert punctuated by oases in a geography of cruelty, barkhans or traveling sand-dunes a hundred feet high, which might or might not possess consciousness, […]
2006, Thomas Pynchon, “Against the Day”, in Against the Day, New York, N.Y.: Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 752
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barkhan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barkhan
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“barkhan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barkhan. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “barkhan,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/barkhan.
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