sandplain
nounEtymology From sand + plain.
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Geography, Geology, Natural sciences An area whose surface consists of sand deposited from elsewhere by the wind or sea.
- I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines.2022, Meg Mooney, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 33:
- Derived terms
- sandplain poison