Dictionary

inselberg en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈɪnsəlˌbɜːɡ/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /ˈɪnsəlˌbɝɡ/ (General-American)
• /-zəl-/ (General-American)
• /-zəl-/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From German Inselberg, from Insel (“island”) + Berg (“mountain”).

Meanings

1. A monadnock (isolated mountain).
   • Click: forest elephant, stern and alert. Click: humpback whale, breaching skyward like a frisky trout. Click: Gaboon viper, its big coppery head so close to the lens you could almost feel the flick of its tongue. Click: granite inselberg, like a great igneous gumdrop, protruding above forest canopy. Click: bulge-eyed hippopotamus, almost unrecognizably strange and serene, riding a wave along the Atlantic coast. 2003, David Quammen, “Saving Africa's Eden”, in National Geographic, volume 204, number 3:
   • Ground penetrating radar can map the foundation of Gulem menhir and establish its identity either as a natural geological oddity, a natural inselberg or a manmade menhir. 2016 December 4, “Archaeological Mystery of Gulem Menhir”, in The Navhind Times:
   • From the north, the road into Nigeria’s purpose-built capital is strewn with inselbergs, vast monolithic stone outcrops that rise abruptly out of the lush savannah. At the centre of the country, the city became the seat of government in 1991 after Lagos had become too crowded and chaotic. 2015 July 24, William Wallis, “What is next for Nigeria?”, in Financial Times:

Forms

Translations (5)

pl twardzielec (Translations) · eu muino lekuko (Translations) · ko 잔구 (Translations) · cmn 孤山 (Translations) · de Inselberg (Translations)