saltpan

Other forms: saltpans

Definitions of saltpan
  1. noun
    a shallow basin in a desert region; contains salt and gypsum that was deposited by an evaporated salt lake
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    type of:
    basin
    a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it
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