prairie lake

English

Etymology

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

Noun

prairie lake (plural prairie lakes)

  1. (geography) 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.
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