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单词 bolson
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bolsonn.

/ˈbəʊlsən//bɒlˈsəʊn/
Origin: A borrowing from Spanish. Etymon: Spanish bolson.
Etymology: < Spanish bolson < bolsa purse (see bulse n.) + -on (see -oon suffix).
U.S.
In the south-western U.S. and Mexico, a basin-shaped depression surrounded by mountains. Also bolson-plain.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > large hollow or basin
hollow1553
howe1584
lake-basin1833
bolson1838
basinc1854
terr-oceanic basin1859
bowl1860
torsion-basin1899
cuvette1907
foredeep1909
1838 A. Ganilh Mexico v. Texas 9 A desert known, in the maps [of Mexico], under the name of ‘Bolson of Mapimi’.
1847 G. F. Ruxton Adventures Mexico & Rocky Mts. xiii. 96 The sun was fast sinking behind the rugged crest of the ‘Bolson’, tinging the serrated ridge..with a golden flood of light.
1904 Amer. Geol. Sept. 164 The bolson plains may be considered as sections of an upraised peneplain surface in its earliest infancy, at a stage in which they are as yet untouched by stream-action.
1964 F. O'Rourke Mule for Marquesa 15 It would be..the Bolsón, ten thousand square miles of the high desert, cupped within the waterless mountains.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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