"bolson" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Spanish bolso (“a large pouch”).",
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          "ref": "1974, U.S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Research Professional Paper 900, p. 120 (Google preview)",
          "text": "In three separate bolsons in West Texas, electrical-resistivity soundings and seismic-refraction profiles have been used . . . to estimate the alluvium thickness and ground-water quality."
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          "ref": "2011, Barry Lopez, Debra Gwartney, editors, Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape, page 43",
          "text": "The image of a colossal purse is helpful in envisioning a bolson in the landscape: an extensive, saucer-shaped basin, closed at the bottom and surrounded on all sides by mountain slopes.",
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          "ref": "2015 November 2, David Crowder, “El Paso’s low water rates to rise”, in El Paso Inc., retrieved 2015-11-21",
          "text": "The water in the Mesilla Bolson, which is recharged by the river above it, is part of a major lawsuit between Texas and New Mexico. . . . A settlement could impose new restrictions on wells tapping the bolson in both states.",
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        "A relatively flat and arid valley that is surrounded by mountains and that drains into a central basin."
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        "(chiefly southwestern US) A relatively flat and arid valley that is surrounded by mountains and that drains into a central basin."
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  "etymology_text": "From Spanish bolso (“a large pouch”).",
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      "form": "bolsons",
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          "text": "The image of a colossal purse is helpful in envisioning a bolson in the landscape: an extensive, saucer-shaped basin, closed at the bottom and surrounded on all sides by mountain slopes.",
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          "ref": "2015 November 2, David Crowder, “El Paso’s low water rates to rise”, in El Paso Inc., retrieved 2015-11-21",
          "text": "The water in the Mesilla Bolson, which is recharged by the river above it, is part of a major lawsuit between Texas and New Mexico. . . . A settlement could impose new restrictions on wells tapping the bolson in both states.",
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