Semidesert
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A semiarid region, approaching desert.
"The attacks throw a region sundered by conflict into still deeper chaos as a volatile mix of rebels, government forces and ethnic militias jockey to control a vast and unforgiving stretch of semidesert that straddles the two troubled countries."
- 2 a region much like a desert but usually located between a desert and the surrounding regions wordnet
Example
More examples"The attacks throw a region sundered by conflict into still deeper chaos as a volatile mix of rebels, government forces and ethnic militias jockey to control a vast and unforgiving stretch of semidesert that straddles the two troubled countries."
Etymology
From semi- + desert.
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