kuru — meaning in English

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 narrow gorge, often with a stream flowing through it.
• 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 fatal disease of the nervous system, once seen among the Fore people of New Guinea, caused by an infectious protein and thought to spread through 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

1. noun A narrow pass or gap through hills or a mesa.
2. noun A small wooden ferry boat traditionally used to cross the creek in Dubai.

canyon — full definition

1. noun A deep, narrow valley with steep sides, usually carved out by a river over a long time.
2. verb Of water or another liquid, to cut a canyon-like channel as it flows.

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