Definitions for bolsons

bolsons bol·son

Spelling: [bohl-sohn]
IPA: /boʊlˈsoʊn/

Bolsons is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in bolsons (blnooss).

Definitions for bolsons

noun

  1. a desert valley, the level of which has been raised by aggradation, usually draining into a playa.

Origin of bolsons

1830-40, Americanism; Spanish: big purse, equivalent to bols(a) purse (Late Latin bursa; see bursa) + -ón augmentative suffix

Examples for bolsons

The vallon was therefore a cul-de-sac; or, as the trapper in his native synonyme called it, a bolson.

All accounts agree in speaking of the bolson of Cuzco as well provided by nature in this respect.

The collector stated that the large tortoises had been found in only one bolson in Coahuila.

Our guide was of opinion that this bolson would serve as a hiding-place, until we could rest our horses.

With a band of deserters, who chose him for their chief, he had taken refuge beyond the wild and waterless bolson de Tonoro.

Barrios is drinking himself to death in jovial company away somewhere on his fundacion beyond the bolson de Tonoro.

Of this nature is the great arid tract known as the bolson of Mapimi.

Such lovely landscape was presented to our eyes in the “bolson” into which our trapper-guide had conducted us.

Word Value for bolsons
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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