sandplain

sand +‎ plain

sandplain (plural sandplains)

1. (geology) An area whose surface consists of sand deposited from elsewhere by the wind or sea.
   • 2022, Meg Mooney, Northern Territory Literary Awards, page 33:

     I'll think of how the kids come alive walking around sandplains / reading tracks, looking for goannas, digging up witchetty grubs / collecting berries, branches of bush medicines.

• sandplain poison