saltland

plural saltlands

1. biologyAny land feature characterized by an abundance of salt, including salt flats, salt pans, or salt marshes.

   […] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada. It's serious dressing up, the maddest entertainment, craziest art, and at the end there's the burning of a huge effigy, stuffed with pyrotechnics 287.

   2010 May 27, Judy Astley, Blowing It: a brilliantly funny, mad-cap novel guaranteed to make you laugh from bestselling author Judy Astley, Random House, →ISBN, page 287

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   […] in the saltlands. Wolves came out by night sometimes and carried off children straying late; sometimes a new - made grave was found open and empty in the morning, and people breathed of ghouls […] late travelers had heard voices[…]

   1978, Robert H. Boyer, Kenneth J. Zahorski, Dark Imaginings: A Collection of Gothic Fantasy

   […] in the saltland? Does the fig tree cease to stand on top of Walmal? The diviner was telling them where the Borana had camped. The Arsi returned again to the Borana territory. While the Arsi were on their way, the Borana diviner[…]

   2002, Sahlu Kidane, Paul Trevor William Baxter, Borana Folktales: A Contextual Study

   […] In the saltlands, this reserve is smaller but is com- pensated by inorganic forms of phosphorous. Singh and Nijhawan (1943) were the first to report high levels of extractable phosphorous in alkali soils of the Indo - Gangetic[…]

   2005, N. T. Singh, Irrigation and Soil Salinity in the Indian Subcontinent: Past and Present, Lehigh University Press, →ISBN, page 294

   […] The saltland heath sodden and yellowed by the winter was sweating in the sun. It smelled like rotten fruit, like beer, like cow's breath. The earth was passing wind; it belched at every footfall; its boil had burst; it was[…]

   2011 January 21, Jim Crace, The Gift of Stones, Anchor Canada, →ISBN, page 88

   […] in the saltlands for a long time. Our supplies ran low - hadn't been for him ” -nodding across the table- " we'd both have died. Don't know how we did get out finally - but we're out, understand? Out! Nothing could hire us to go[…]

   2015 September 22, C.L. Moore, Northwest Smith, Diversion Publishing Corp., →ISBN