cave

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Harrison's Cave: A unique phenomenon of nature, this cave is an amazing gallery of stalactites hanging from the roof of the cave, and stalagmites emerging from the ground, with waterfalls that form deep emerald pools.

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  1. noun A hollow or natural passage under or into the earth, especially one with an opening to the surface.
  2. noun A storage cellar, especially for wine.
  3. transitive verb To dig or hollow out.
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cavern ·  tunnel ·  valley ·  chamber ·  forest ·  lake ·  cliff ·  pit ·  hut ·  hall ·  tent ·  castle

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cave:   caving ·  caves ·  caved
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  1. Middle English, from Old French, from Latin cava, from neuter pl. of cavus, hollow; see keuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English cave, from Old French cave, caive, a cave (variant cage, a cage, later English cage), = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian cava, from Latin cavea, a cave, also a cage, from cavus, hollow (neuter cavum, a cave), akin to Greek κύαρ, a hole (cf. Greek κοῑλος, orig. *καφιλος (?), hollow, = Latin cælum, orig. *cavilum, the sky: see ceil, n., celestial, etc.), from κ/υειν, κυειν, conceive, swell, orig. contain. Hence cavern, cage, concave, excavate, etc.
  2. from cave, n.; =F. caver = Provencal Spanish Portuguese cavar = Italian cavare, from Latin cavare, make hollow, hollow out, excavate, from cavus, hollow: see cave, n., from which the English verb is in part directly derived. In def. II., 2, as in the phrase cave in, the verb, though now completely identified with cave, v., with reference to the noun cave, is in its origin an accommodation of the dial. calve, calve in, from calf, a detached mass of earth: see calve, v., 2, and calf, n., 7, 8, 9.
 

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