salt pan

See also: saltpan

English

A salt pan in Peru

Noun

salt pan (plural salt pans)

1. Synonym of salt flat: a natural dry lake or playa whose bed contains abundant salt.
2. A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated to recover salt and/or other minerals.

Synonyms

• (evaporation pond): pan

Related terms

• hardpan

Translations

A man-made pond where salty water is evaporated

• Bulgarian: солница (bg) f (solnica)
• Catalan: salina f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 鹽池／盐池 (zh) (yánchí); 鹽田／盐田 (zh) (yántián)

• Dutch: zoutpan(ne) f
• German: Salzpfanne f
• Greek: αλυκή (el) f (alykí)
• Italian: salina (it) f
• Latin: salinae f pl
• Malayalam: ഉപ്പളം (ml) (uppaḷaṁ)
• Polish: salina (pl) f
• Portuguese: salina (pt) f
• Spanish: salinera f, salar (es) m

Anagrams

• Patlans, platans