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View synonyms for alkali flat

alkali flat

noun

  1. a level area, as a dry lake bed, in which evaporation has concentrated alkali minerals, as sodium sulfates and carbonates. Compare salt flat.


alkali flat

noun

  1. an arid plain encrusted with alkaline salts derived from the streams draining into it
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of alkali flat1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences

As it lay through an uninhabited alkali flat, the right of way could be easily obtained.

Each "drive" brought together on some alkali flat thousands of the restless, milling, bawling cattle.

Trail dust sure does make a man's throat dryer'n an alkali flat!

Ride down the barranca two hundred yards and you'll come to an alkali flat.

The rear of the saloon was partitioned off into a "Ladies' Room," whose door opened on the alkali flat behind.

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