Definitions for salt flat

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

salt′ flat`(n.)

  1. an extensive level tract coated with salt deposits left by evaporation of rising ground water or a temporary body of surface water.

    Category: Geology, Ecology

Origin of salt flat:

1870–75

Princeton's WordNet

  1. salt flat, salt plain(noun)

    a flat expanse of salt left by the evaporation of a body of salt water

Wiktionary

  1. salt flat(Noun)

    A dry lake bed consisting primarily of salt.


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