salt flat en · NOUN
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A dry lake or playa whose level bed contains abundant salt.
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.
2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Neith:
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| salt flats | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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cmn 鹽池 /盐池 (flat expanse of ground with abundant salt) · ja 塩田 (flat expanse of ground with abundant salt) · cmn 鹽湖 /盐湖 (flat expanse of ground with abundant salt) · fi suolapannu (flat expanse of ground with abundant salt) · cmn 乾鹽湖 /干盐湖 (flat expanse of ground with abundant salt) · es salinera (flat expanse of ground with abundant salt) · pl solnisko (flat expanse of ground with abundant salt) · it salina (flat expanse of ground with abundant salt) · fi suolatasanko (flat expanse of ground with abundant salt)