DEAD SEA


Meaning of DEAD SEA in English

noun

Etymology: from the Dead sea, salt lake in Palestine, its prototype; translation of Late Latin Mare Mortuum, translation of Greek Nekra Thalassa

: a body of water from which beds of rock salt, gypsum, or other evaporites have been precipitated

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