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saltland

saltland noun: any land feature characterized by an abundance of salt, including salt flats, salt pans, or salt marshes.

Noun

saltland (plural saltlands)

  1. Any land feature characterized by an abundance of salt, including salt flats, salt pans, or salt marshes.
    • […] 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

Examples of saltland in a sentence

  • […] In the saltlands, this reserve is smaller but is com- pensated by inorganic forms of phosphorous.2005, N. T. Singh, Irrigation and Soil Salinity in the Indian Subcontinent: Past and Present, Lehigh University Press, →ISBN, page 294:
  • […] at all, just a vast space of desert out in the saltlands of Nevada.2010 May 27, Judy Astley, Blowing It: a brilliantly funny, mad-cap novel guaranteed to make you laugh from bestselling author Judy Astley...
  • […] The saltland heath sodden and yellowed by the winter was sweating in the sun.2011 January 21, Jim Crace, The Gift of Stones, Anchor Canada, →ISBN, page 88:
  • […] the saltland for its dwelling place?2016 April 28, Andrew Picard, Myk Habets, Theology and the Experience of Disability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Voices Down Under...

Forms of saltland

pluralsaltlands

Origin of saltland

From salt + land.

Questions about saltland

What does saltland mean?
Saltland means any land feature characterized by an abundance of salt, including salt flats, salt pans, or salt marshes.
How do you use saltland in a sentence?
[…] In the saltlands, this reserve is smaller but is com- pensated by inorganic forms of phosphorous.
What part of speech is saltland?
Saltland is a noun.
What is the plural of saltland?
The plural of saltland is saltlands.

Words near saltland in the dictionary

  1. saltires
  2. saltirewise
  3. saltish
  4. saltishly
  5. saltishness
  6. saltland
  7. saltlands
  8. saltless
  9. saltlessness
  10. Saltley
  11. saltlick

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