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lahontan

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La⋅hon⋅tan

  [luh-hon-tuhn]
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–noun
Lake, an Ice Age lake in W Nevada and NE California. ab. 8600 sq. mi. (22,000 sq. km): remnants include Carson Sink, Pyramid Lake.
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La·hon·tan   (lə-hŏn'tən)   
An extinct lake with surviving remnants in western Nevada and northeast California. It was formed by heavy precipitation caused by Pleistocene glaciers but largely disappeared after the end of the epoch.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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