A shallow depression or hollow in the ground with an impermeable clay base which holds water after rain.
〈澳〉淤泥浅洼；浅坑
Example sentencesExamples
They buried him near his camp, on the edge of a small claypan.
Otherwise it's all high and long sand ridges with claypans in between.
The terrain varied from dismal rows of dunes to baked claypan, rock-tiled wasteland to savage, waterless mountains.
The experiment was started to avoid overflow from the existing sewage ponds into the surrounding claypans.
Our sunset was a non-event, the sun obscured by low cloud, much to the disappointment of a couple of visitors who had carried tripods, huge lenses and other equipment out to the dry claypans (where some images show an expanse of water).