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cryptodepressions

cryptodepressions is the plural of cryptodepression.

Meaning of cryptodepression

Noun

cryptodepression (plural cryptodepressions)

  1. The portion of a lake which lies below sea level.
    • When the bottom of the lake lies below mean sea level, it is said to occupy a cryptodepression, the depth of which is the depth below sea level of the deepest point of the basin.1957, G[eorge] Evelyn Hutchinson, A Treatise on Limnology, volumes I (Geography, Physics, and Chemistry), New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →OCLC, page 165

Questions about cryptodepressions

What is cryptodepressions the plural of?
Cryptodepressions is the plural of cryptodepression.

Words near cryptodepressions in the dictionary

  1. cryptocyst
  2. cryptocystal
  3. cryptocystidean
  4. cryptocysts
  5. cryptodepression
  6. cryptodepressions
  7. cryptodiran
  8. cryptodirans
  9. cryptodire
  10. cryptodires
  11. cryptodome

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