Sandplain

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An area whose surface consists of sand deposited from elsewhere by the wind or sea.

    "I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines."

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"I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines."

Etymology

From sand + plain.

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