prairie lake
A type of lake that has no inlet, which is fed by rainfall and runoff, and preserved…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.
Meaning
1 sensesA 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.
Origin
When such a lake dries out, its bed becomes a grassland like a prairie.When such a lake dries out, its bed becomes a grassland like a prairie.
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Forms
plural: prairie lakes| Singular | prairie lake |
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See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.