salt flat

salt flat

English

Noun

salt flat (plural salt flats)

1. A dry lake or playa whose level bed contains abundant salt.
   • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 865290061, PC, scene: Neith:

     Cold and dry, Neith has a thin nitrogen atmosphere and vast salt flats at its equator, which is warm enough for liquid water to pool during the summer period. The revealed salt is collected and sold to sodium-poor planets for agricultural purposes.

Synonyms

• salt pan

Hypernyms

• alkali flat

Hyponyms

• dry lake, playa

Translations

flat expanse of ground with abundant salt

Chinese: Mandarin: 乾鹽湖, 干盐湖 (gānyánhú); 鹽湖 (zh), 盐湖 (zh) (yánhú) (inexact); 鹽池 (zh), 盐池 (zh) (yánchí) (smaller) Finnish: suolatasanko Italian: salina (it) f Japanese: 塩田 (ja) (えんでん, enten) Polish: solnisko n Spanish: salinera f