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Playa

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(a Spanish word meaning "shore"), the name applied in America to a level plain formed of the deposits of a river which has no outlet to the sea or a lake. If at seasons of high water a river floods any area and temporarily converts it into a lake, which subsequently dries up in hot weather, the tract thus left dry is called a playa. The barren Black Rock Desert in north-western Nevada, about zoo m. in length by 15 in breadth, is typical.

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Playa'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​p/playa.html. 1910.
 
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