hardpan

English

Etymology

From hard +‎ pan.

Noun

hardpan (countable and uncountable, plural hardpans)

1. A distinct layer of soil that is largely impervious to water.
2. Synonym of dry lake.

Hypernyms

• pan

Related terms

• salt pan, saltpan

Translations

layer of soil

• Afrikaans: ouklip
• Finnish: jankko (fi), anturamaa (fi), palsi (fi)
• French: alios (fr) m
• German: Ortstein (de) m
• Irish: cruachiseal m
• Korean: 경반층 (gyeongbancheung)
• Polish: orsztyn m, rudawiec (pl) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хардпан

  Roman: hardpan

• Swedish: ortsten c
• Welsh: cletir m

Anagrams

• Pradhan, pradhan