Definitions
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- noun an area of coastal
salt flats , especially in North Africa and Arabia
Etymologies
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Arabic سبخة ‘salt flat’.
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Examples
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The arid inland is mainly sand hills and sandstone cliffs which rise to 15 m, with some sebkha (salty mud pans).
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