chott

also shott or schott (shŏt)

1. The depression surrounding a salt marsh or lake, especially in North Africa.

2. The bed of a dried salt marsh.

[French, from Arabic šaṭṭ, bank, coast, from šaṭṭa, to exceed, deviate; see śṭṭ in Semitic roots.]

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chott

(ʃɒt)

(Physical Geography) a variant spelling of shott

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