SALTPAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does saltpan mean? 

• SALTPAN (noun)
  The noun SALTPAN has 1 sense:

1. a shallow basin in a desert region; contains salt and gypsum that was deposited by an evaporated salt lake

  Familiarity information: SALTPAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALTPAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A shallow basin in a desert region; contains salt and gypsum that was deposited by an evaporated salt lake

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("saltpan" is a kind of...):

basin (a natural depression in the surface of the land often with a lake at the bottom of it)