Great Basin

noun

a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).

Great Basin

a semiarid region of the western US, between the Wasatch and the Sierra Nevada Mountains, having no drainage to the ocean: includes Nevada, W Utah, and parts of E California, S Oregon, and Idaho. Area: about 490 000 sq km (189 000 sq miles)

They began near the head waters of the stream, and carefully trapped down to the Great Basin.

There's a great Basin in the Center always full of wild Ducks.

Nevada belongs to the "Great Basin," a table-land elevated 4,500 feet above the sea.

The top of this mountain was round and the eagles had hollowed out a great basin on the summit which they used for a nest.

This good beginning made in the state, we went on, climbing first over the rim of the Great Basin, then up and across the Rockies.

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