Meanings
plural salt flats
- 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: NeithSynonyms: salt pan
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA dry lake or playa whose level bed contains abundant salt.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 乾鹽湖 /干盐湖, 鹽湖 /盐湖
- 乾鹽湖 /干盐湖 (gānyánhú)flat expanse of ground with abundant salt
- 鹽湖 /盐湖 (yánhú)flat expanse of ground with abundant salt
- 鹽池 /盐池 (yánchí)flat expanse of ground with abundant salt
Finnish suolatasanko, suolapannu
- suolatasankoflat expanse of ground with abundant salt
- suolapannuflat expanse of ground with abundant salt
Italian salina
- salinaflat expanse of ground with abundant salt
Japanese 塩田
- 塩田 (enten)flat expanse of ground with abundant salt
Polish solnisko
- solniskoflat expanse of ground with abundant salt
Spanish salinera
- salineraflat expanse of ground with abundant salt
Cite this entry
salt flat. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salt%20flat
“salt flat.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/salt%20flat. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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