kuru — meaning in English
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English meaning
- abra noun A narrow pass or gap through hills or a mesa.
- canyon noun A deep, narrow valley with steep sides, usually carved out by a river over a long time.
- flume noun A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
- gorge noun A deep, narrow valley or ravine, usually with steep rocky walls and often a river running through it.
- gulch noun A narrow, steep-sided ravine, often cut by flash floods, shallower than a canyon.
- kuru noun A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
Senses
kuru is used for these senses in English:
- abra a narrow mountain or mesa pass
- canyon A valley, especially a long, narrow, steep valley, cut in rock by a river.
- flume A ravine or gorge, usually one with water running through.
- gorge (geography) A deep, narrow passage with steep, rocky sides, particularly one with a stream running through it; a ravine.
- gulch A ravine-like or deep V-shaped valley, often eroded by flash floods; shallower than a canyon and deeper than a gully.
- kuru A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
abra — full definition
- noun A narrow pass or gap through hills or a mesa.
- noun A small wooden ferry boat traditionally used to cross the creek in Dubai.
canyon — full definition
- noun A deep, narrow valley with steep sides, usually carved out by a river over a long time.
- verb Of water or another liquid, to cut a canyon-like channel as it flows.