cuvettes

It is an area of three related habitats: bayous, meres and backwaters dry for three months every year, usually flooded basins (cuvettes) and irregularly flooded alluvial plains.

Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Senegal 2008

Between those domes in the depressions were sandy _cuvettes_ of verdant grass and the usual central _bosquets_.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

In the _cuvettes_ I saw, the growth of the tall vegetation invariably ran the long way of the oval.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Others, with soft black mud bottoms -- especially in _cuvettes_ -- were extremely troublesome to cross.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

We still came upon basins of grey ashes -- _cuvettes_ -- but in that region these were deeper than those we had observed so far, had luxuriant grass, and in the moist centre the invariable line of _burity_ palm and heavily foliaged trees.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

Yet early next morning we pushed on once more over transverse undulations and across grassy _cuvettes_, slightly conical, with circular pools of water in the centre and a florid growth of bamboos in the lowest point of the _cuvettes_.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

We travelled again that same day on the northern edge of the great depression, and met three more _cuvettes_ of grey ashes with an abundant central growth of _buritys_.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

We again met with several _cuvettes_ -- very grassy, with the usual florid growth of trees in the centre.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

There again we found another of the extensive grassy _cuvettes_ -- the flat bottom of which was only 30 ft. lower than the highest point of the plateau.

Across Unknown South America Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

The infrared sensors for monitoring the activity of the flies were on the ends of the cuvettes opposite the LED illumination.

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