desert
Noun
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is a type of:
- biome - a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
- parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract - an extended area of land
specific instances:- arabian desert, great arabian desert - a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia
- arabian desert, eastern desert - a desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea
- atacama desert - a desert in western Chile that extends roughly 600 miles south from the Peruvian border; one of the driest areas in the world, but rich in nitrate and copper deposits
- australian desert, great australian desert - general name given to all desert areas in Australia
- black rock desert - a desert in northwestern Nevada
- chihuahuan desert - a desert in western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico
- colorado desert - an arid region of southeastern California
- dasht-e-kavir, great salt desert, kavir desert - a salt desert in north central Iran
- dasht-e-lut, lut desert - a desert in eastern Iran
- death valley - a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America
- gibson desert - a desert area in western Australia
- gila desert - a desert area in southern Arizona
- gobi, gobi desert - a desert in central China
- great sandy desert - a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert
- great victoria desert - a desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain
- kalahari, kalahari desert - a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana
- kara kum, qara qum, turkestan desert - a desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea
- kizil kum, kyzyl kum, qizil qum - a desert in Uzbekistan to the southeast of the Aral Sea
- libyan desert - the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan
- mohave, mohave desert, mojave, mojave desert - a desert area in southern California and western Arizona
- namib desert - a desert in Namibia extending along the coast between the high plateau and the Atlantic Ocean
- an nafud, an nefud, nafud, nefud - a desert in northern Saudi Arabia that is noted for its red sand and violent winds
- negev, negev desert - a desert in southern Israel
- nubian desert - an arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea
- painted desert - a desert on a high plateau in northeastern Arizona
- patagonian desert - a semiarid region in southern South America
- ar rimsal, dahna, great sandy desert, rub al-khali - a desert in southern Saudi Arabia
- sahara, sahara desert - the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa
- simpson desert - a desert region of central Australia
- sinai, sinai desert - a desert on the Sinai Peninsula in northeastern Egypt
- sonoran desert - a desert in southwestern Arizona
- syrian desert - a desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia
- taklamakan desert, taklimakan desert - a desert in western China
- great indian desert, thar desert - a desert to the east of the Indus River in northwestern India and southeastern Pakistan
has: oasis - a fertile tract in a desert (where the water table approaches the surface) -
domain usage: plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than oneis a type of: deservingness, merit, meritoriousness - the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)
Verb
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is a type of: leave - go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulnesssubtypes:
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subtypes: rat - desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantagesame as: defect
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