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HARDPAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hardpan mean?
• HARDPAN (noun)
The noun HARDPAN has 1 sense:
1. crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
Familiarity information: HARDPAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Synonyms:
caliche; hardpan
Hypernyms ("hardpan" is a kind of...):
dirt; soil (the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock)
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