English

Noun

barkhan ‎(plural barkhans)

1. Alternative spelling of barchan
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 844:

     The structure out here was revealed immediately—desert punctuated by oases in a geography of cruelty, barkhans or traveling sand-dunes a hundred feet high, which might or might not possess consciousness