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| Kame | A body of stratified glacial sediment. A mound or an irregular ridge deposited by a subglacial stream as an alluvial fan or a delta. |
| Karst topography | A landscape characterized by sinks, solution valleys, and other features produced by groundwater activity; it commonly develops in limestone. |
| keel | A median ridge on a scale. |
| Keratin | a hard, tough, non-soluble protein |
| Keratinized scale | Scales containing keratin, which is a hard, tough, non-soluble protein produced in the epidermis of both reptiles and amphibians (Peters 1964). |
| Kettle | A closed depression in a deposit of glacial drift formed where a block of ice was buried or partly buried and then melted. |
| Kleptoparasitised | An animal that obtained its food mainly by scavenging the food supplies of another species, especially one with which it habitually lives in close proximity (Morris 1992). |