A shallow container or depression in the ground in which salt water evaporates to leave a deposit of salt.
（煮）盐锅；浅盐湖
Example sentencesExamples
The surface of Central Australia's Stuart Highway may be ribbon-smooth, but to each side of it are ancient red sand ridges and ochre salt pans.
The salt pans on which his wealth was based are now overgrown with thorny scrub; the channel that once linked lagoon to ocean choked by prickly pear and cactus.
The lagoon was ideal for salt pans - shallow basins that could be opened to allow in the tide, then closed so the water could evaporate.
The same facilities have also been used to load salt from the solar salt pans at Price, about ten kilometres north of Ardrossan.
The residents of Salt Island were right at the bottom of the social pile, subsistence fishing and working the salt pans while living barely out of slavery.
Definition of salt pan in US English:
salt pan
nounˈsôlt ˌpanˈsɔlt ˌpæn
A shallow container or depression in the ground in which salt water evaporates to leave a deposit of salt.
（煮）盐锅；浅盐湖
Example sentencesExamples
The same facilities have also been used to load salt from the solar salt pans at Price, about ten kilometres north of Ardrossan.
The salt pans on which his wealth was based are now overgrown with thorny scrub; the channel that once linked lagoon to ocean choked by prickly pear and cactus.
The lagoon was ideal for salt pans - shallow basins that could be opened to allow in the tide, then closed so the water could evaporate.
The surface of Central Australia's Stuart Highway may be ribbon-smooth, but to each side of it are ancient red sand ridges and ochre salt pans.
The residents of Salt Island were right at the bottom of the social pile, subsistence fishing and working the salt pans while living barely out of slavery.