English Explanatory Dictionary

prairie lake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A type of lake that has no inlet, which is fed by rainfall and runoff, and preserved by high water tables, which dries out when water tables drop in dry weather.

Word forms

prairie lake prairie lakes

Etymology

When such a lake dries out, its bed becomes a grassland like a prairie.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on P Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary