Kamchatkan

/ (Russian kamˈtʃatkən) /

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adjective

of or relating to Kamchatka, a peninsula in E Russia, or its inhabitants

noun

a native or inhabitant of Kamchatka

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Words nearby Kamchatkan

Kama Sutra, Kamba, kambal, Kamchadal, Kamchatka, Kamchatkan, kame, kameez, Kamehameha Day, Kamehameha I, kamelaukion

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How to use Kamchatkan in a sentence

Not only he had never seen this animal before, but even his Kamchatkan Cossack did not know it.
Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait|Peter Lauridsen
Whether they reached Bering Sea and the Kamchatkan shore before the next epoch of glaciation we do not know.
The Red Man's Continent|Ellsworth Huntington
On the Kamchatkan coast several of the crew and sixteen of these girls were landed to pick berries.
Alaska|Ella Higginson
In May the first whalers follow the Kamchatkan Coast northward, as the ice melts on that shore earlier than on ours.
Alaska|Ella Higginson

It is bounded on the east by Alaska, and on the west by the Siberian and Kamchatkan coast.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 6|Various