Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A quicksand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A quicksand; a bog.

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  • noun A quicksand or bog.
  • noun A kind of elevated flatland in Russia and Central Asia.

Etymologies

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Latin syrtis

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sırt, meaning "highland", "ridge" or "backbone" in Turkic languages.

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Examples

  • A buried soil of syrt deposits in the Saratov trans-Volga and its age

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • Within Central Asia, it is defined by deserts and halophytic regions of the syrt regions according to Pereladova’s map of Central Asian ecosystems.

    Caspian lowland desert 2008

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