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kirta

noun

Etymology

From or related to Kanuri kə́rtá (“floating island”).

  1. derived from kə́rtá

Definitions

  1. A floating island on Lake Chad.

    • The kirtas were very numerous … until 1967 … These islands disappeared fairly quickly when the average level of the lake decreased below 282 m.
    • From up there [satellites], the immense masses of vegetation that you see seem like solid ground, but instead they are all kirta, the floating islands.
    • ... kirtas or floating islands of aquatic vegetation, usually of Papyrus or Phragmites, but also sometimes of Vossia cuspidata, which can break free from vegetation fringing islands in Lake Chad […]

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