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 orbog . - noun A kind of
elevated flatland inRussia andCentral 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
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A buried soil of syrt deposits in the Saratov trans-Volga and its age
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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Within Central Asia, it is defined by deserts and halophytic regions of the syrt regions according to Pereladova’s map of Central Asian ecosystems.
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