barkhan
English edit
Noun edit
barkhan (plural barkhans)
- Alternative spelling of barchan
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 844:
- 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