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Gobi

//ˈɡoʊ.bi// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A large desert in Asia, spanning the countries of Mongolia and China.

    "In winter the thermometer on the Mongolian plateau sometimes drops to –40° Fahrenheit, yet the camels wander about with no sense of suffering. On the other hand, the Russian explorer, Prejevalski, found the temperature of the ground in the Gobi Desert in summer to be more than 140° Fahrenheit, and the camels are apparently as indifferent to this degree of heat as they are to the winter cold."

Noun
  1. 1
    cauliflower India, uncountable

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Mongolian Говь (Govʹ) or ᠭᠣᠪᠢ (Ɣobi).

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Hindi गोभी (gobhī), from Portuguese couve (“cabbage”), from Latin caulis. Doublet of caulis, cole, and kale.

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