White Sands

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A desert in Tularosa Basin, New Mexico, United States, composed of white gypsum sand.

Word forms

White Sands

Etymology

From white + sand. * (New Mexico): From the color of the sand, actually gypsum crystals, instead of feldspathic sand.

Related words

sand white white sand
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