kavirn.
/kəˈvɪə/ A salt-desert, or more rarely a saline swamp, in Iran; terrain of this type; also spec. ( the Kavir), the great central salt-desert of Iran, more commonly called the Dasht-i-kavir.
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1881 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 3 515 The road..across the Kavir or Great Salt Desert was very difficult.
1881 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 3 517 Soon after passing Illahabad a small piece of kavir or salt desert is passed.
1881 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 3 518 There are various sorts of kavir, depending upon the soil and the amount of salt.
1896 Geogr. Jrnl. 7 34 These bushes grow..along the borders of the swampy part of the salt desert, which is known as the Kavir or Dasht-i-Kavir.
1896 Geogr. Jrnl. 7 166 The greater portion of the tract consists of kavir, or sandy soil strongly impregnated with salt.
1902 P. M. Sykes Ten Thousand Miles in Persia iii. 33 And that Kavir is applied to every saline swamp in the whole blighted expanse.
1963 D. W. Humphries & E. E. Humphries tr. H. Termier & G. Termier Erosion & Sedimentation v. 118 As a result of evaporation, some closed basins are floored by a saline crust which is called sebkha in North Africa.., solonchak in the region of the Caspian, and kevirs in Transcaspia.
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