Meaning of gramadulla | Babel Free

Definitions

Arid terrain characterized by numerous alternating canyons and gorges.

Namibia

Examples

“the word “gramadulla” […] seemed to express just the bleak desolation of those grey-capped masses of rock and the wild labyrinth of those innumerable gorges and ravines.”

“1971, Jillian Becker, The Union, London: Chatto & Windus, Chapter 4, p. 248, Perhaps it was Lisa, who had become a huntress, who chased him on; across the plains and down the gramadulla gorges, and through the shade of granite dykes.”

“ephemeral rivers like the Swakop are deeply incised into the plains, producing gorges and areas of badlands (locally called gramadullas)”

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