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salt pans

salt pans is the plural of salt pan.

Meaning of salt pan

Noun

salt pan (plural salt pans)

  1. Synonym of salt flat: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt.
    Synonyms:
    salt flat
  2. Synonym of saltern: a man-made pond where salty water is evaporated to recover salt and/or other minerals.
    • In order to provide a market for the coal, four salt pans were constructed a third of a mile south-east of the harbour. […] Thereafter the route of the original line was followed to the harbour, beyond which an extension, a third of a mile long, led to the salt pans and a newly constructed inn, the...1960 January, Iain D. O. Frew, “The Brora Colliery Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, pages 55, 56
    Synonyms:
    saltern, pan

Questions about salt pans

What is salt pans the plural of?
Salt pans is the plural of salt pan.

Words near salt pans in the dictionary

  1. salt of vitriol
  2. salt of wisdom
  3. salt of wormwood
  4. salt out
  5. salt pan
  6. salt pans
  7. salt pig
  8. salt pigs
  9. salt pork
  10. salt porks
  11. salt rheum

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