desert

1. Arid land with little or no vegetation (synset 108522594)
   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)
2. (usually plural) a person's deservingness of or entitlement to reward or punishment (synset 104814439)
   domain usage: plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one
   is a type of: deservingness, merit, meritoriousness - the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance)

1. Leave someone who needs or counts on you;
   Leave in the lurch (synset 200615748)
   "The mother deserted her children"
   is a type of: leave - go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness
   subtypes:

   • expose - abandon by leaving out in the open air
   • walk out - leave suddenly, often as an expression of disapproval
   • ditch - forsake
   • maroon, strand - leave stranded or isolated with little hope of rescue
   same as: abandon, desolate, forsake
2. Desert (a cause, a country or an army), often in order to join the opposing cause, country, or army (synset 202590182)
   "If soldiers deserted Hitler's army, they were shot"
   entail: dissent, protest, resist - express opposition through action or words
   is a type of: flee, fly, take flight - run away quickly
   subtypes: rat - desert one's party or group of friends, for example, for one's personal advantage
   same as: defect
3. Leave behind (synset 201846309)
   "the students deserted the campus after the end of exam period"
   is a type of: go away, go forth, leave - go away from a place

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