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noun ˈplʌɪəˈplīə An area of flat, dried-up land, especially a desert basin from which water evaporates quickly. Example sentencesExamples - This week I've spent 40 minutes sitting in my living room (and a few minutes in class) pretending I'm back at Burning Man, sitting in the sun outside camp, gazing across the dusty playa.
- Preference of relatively small prey by avocets and dowitchers was likely a function of small prey being more abundant in playas than large prey.
- This shrimp inhabits ephemeral habitats such as natural playas and human-made cattle tanks in the southwestern United States.
- Suddenly I was on the barren playas of Tierra del Fuego, the broiling ground belching huge clouds of sulfurous gases into the heavy atmosphere.
- The sedimentary environment was a broad, flat floodplain with meandering streams and numerous shallow lakes or playas that could have become alkaline or saline during drier times.
- Many streams in the world's arid and semiarid regions run only intermittently and empty into broad, undrained basins known as playas, where they deposit their sediment and dissolved minerals.
- Volcanic cones, lava flows, alluvial fans where canyons blend to valley floors, and playas where there were once Pleistocene lakes, add to a sense of active, sometimes violent geological processes at work.
- Deluded, dehydrated, mad, Heck wandered toward a tree at the edge of the playa, across the railroad tracks, and approached Trego hot springs.
- Intermixed with the peaks are dark, flat areas that might be lakes or playas (dry lake beds).
- We collected invertebrates from the benthos and water column of 20 playas during spring and fall 1993 and 1994.
- Typically, the basins are internally drained, resulting in the formation of saline ephemeral lakes known as playas.
- This landscape of jagged mountains, desert playas, and massive canyons has yielded woolly-mammoth skeletons and still bears the wagon ruts and axle-grease graffiti of the pioneers.
- Because playas typically dried before the end of the migration period, we replaced dried playas with randomly selected playas from the group of 60 playas.
- In some deserts, salty flats or ephemeral lakes or playas with marginal sabkhas occur.
- The little-known magnificent wildlands of Nevada are typified in this remote wilderness of rugged canyons and broad desert playas.
- All four species apparently do not select prey items on the basis of the nutritional or energetic quality of a prey item, but rather select prey items on the basis of which prey item is most abundant in a playa.
- They further suggest that the numerous shallow lakes, or playas, in the Brushy Basin could be up to 5-10 miles across.
- Moreover, in most cases, only a few prey taxa occurred in playas during spring, whereas 10-15 taxa commonly occurred in playas during fall.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Spanish, literally 'beach', from late Latin plagia. Rhymes acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, briar, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah nounˈplīə An area of flat, dried-up land, especially a desert basin from which water evaporates quickly. Example sentencesExamples - This landscape of jagged mountains, desert playas, and massive canyons has yielded woolly-mammoth skeletons and still bears the wagon ruts and axle-grease graffiti of the pioneers.
- Many streams in the world's arid and semiarid regions run only intermittently and empty into broad, undrained basins known as playas, where they deposit their sediment and dissolved minerals.
- Preference of relatively small prey by avocets and dowitchers was likely a function of small prey being more abundant in playas than large prey.
- Typically, the basins are internally drained, resulting in the formation of saline ephemeral lakes known as playas.
- All four species apparently do not select prey items on the basis of the nutritional or energetic quality of a prey item, but rather select prey items on the basis of which prey item is most abundant in a playa.
- They further suggest that the numerous shallow lakes, or playas, in the Brushy Basin could be up to 5-10 miles across.
- Because playas typically dried before the end of the migration period, we replaced dried playas with randomly selected playas from the group of 60 playas.
- Volcanic cones, lava flows, alluvial fans where canyons blend to valley floors, and playas where there were once Pleistocene lakes, add to a sense of active, sometimes violent geological processes at work.
- This shrimp inhabits ephemeral habitats such as natural playas and human-made cattle tanks in the southwestern United States.
- Intermixed with the peaks are dark, flat areas that might be lakes or playas (dry lake beds).
- Moreover, in most cases, only a few prey taxa occurred in playas during spring, whereas 10-15 taxa commonly occurred in playas during fall.
- This week I've spent 40 minutes sitting in my living room (and a few minutes in class) pretending I'm back at Burning Man, sitting in the sun outside camp, gazing across the dusty playa.
- Suddenly I was on the barren playas of Tierra del Fuego, the broiling ground belching huge clouds of sulfurous gases into the heavy atmosphere.
- We collected invertebrates from the benthos and water column of 20 playas during spring and fall 1993 and 1994.
- The little-known magnificent wildlands of Nevada are typified in this remote wilderness of rugged canyons and broad desert playas.
- Deluded, dehydrated, mad, Heck wandered toward a tree at the edge of the playa, across the railroad tracks, and approached Trego hot springs.
- In some deserts, salty flats or ephemeral lakes or playas with marginal sabkhas occur.
- The sedimentary environment was a broad, flat floodplain with meandering streams and numerous shallow lakes or playas that could have become alkaline or saline during drier times.
Origin Mid 19th century: from Spanish, literally ‘beach’, from late Latin plagia. |