Meaning of PLAYA
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| Definition: | | Playa La Playa more details ... |
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Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| Definition: | | \Pla"ya\, n. [Sp.]
A beach; a strand; in the plains and deserts of Texas, New
Mexico, and Arizona, a broad, level spot, on which
subsequently becomes dry by evaporation. --Bartlett.
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Biology Dictionary |
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- Periodically-flooded basin common in parts of the Southwest.
- Bed of a dry lake.
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Thesaurus Terms |
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| Related Terms: | | alkali flat, alluvial plain, bank, basin, beach, berm, bottomland, bushveld, campo, champaign, champaign country, coast, coastal plain, coastland, coastline, delta, desert, down, downs, embankment, fell, flat, flat country, flatland, flats, foreshore, grass veld, grassland, heath, ironbound coast, lande, level, lido, littoral, llano, lowland, lowlands, lunar mare, mare, mesa, mesilla, moor, moorland, open country, pampa, pampas, peneplain, plage, plain, plains, plateau, prairie, riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, salt flat, salt marsh, salt pan, sands, savanna, sea margin, seabank, seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, sebkha, shingle, shore, shoreline, steppe, strand, submerged coast, table, tableland, tidewater, tree veld, tundra, upland, vega, veld, waterfront, waterside, weald, wide-open spaces, wold |
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