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cave | American Dictionary

cave
noun[ C ]
us/keɪv/
a large hole in the side of a hill, cliff, or mountain, or underground:
It was very dark and cold inside the cave.

Examples of cave

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French business groups reliant on colonial trade showed no sign of caving in to the arguments of the progressive bureaucrats willing to diversify colonial economies.
The blockages, themselves, could provide evidence of the cave's original contents.
The crevices between the loose rock in the caves were often found partly filled with soil rich in organic remains.
The association of cenotes and caves is impor tant here.
As physical access points to supernatural beings, physical characteristics of caves were probably thought to be as mysterious as the beings that dwelled there.
Instead of offering a solution to the problem, this principle caves into its pressure.
Whole villages of people disappeared into forests or hid in caves in the mountainous regions.
Nonnidiculous ticks occupy open habitats whereas nidiculous ticks live in caves, burrows or nests of their hosts.
There are far too many omissions for it to be an all-encompassing encyclopedia of caves.
The serious problem of radon in caves gets only passing mention.
She also looks at the artefactual evidence in rock shelters and caves for fleece processing and use in the past.
Speleothems : a wide diversity of primitive life colonizes subsurface void spaces (' caves '), a potential environment that offers protection from harmful radiation on the surface.
There are indeed lakes beneath the ice sheet, but they do not occur in caves.
The cave's roof dripped and their clothing was soon soaked.
The subconscious social grouping, the instinctive transformation from isolated self to group, needs caves where they might settle.
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artificial cave
To that end the rock crevice below the summit plateau was widened into an artificialcave, used as a guardhouse.
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