1) Abandon 2) Abandon in the Gobi 3) Abandon key trees, felled 4) Abandon ship 5) Abandon virtue 6) Antarctica 7) Apostatize 8) Arid area 9) Arid area of land 10) Arid expanse 11) Arid place 12) Arid region 13) Arizona, mostly 14) Atacama 15) Bail out on 16) Barren area 17) Barren expanse 18) Bedouin milieu
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1) Abandon 2) Abaon 3) Forsake 4) Go awol 5) Gobi 6) Godforsaken 7) Inhospitable 8) Jilt 9) Kalahari 10) Leave 11) Negev 12) Plain 13) Sahara 14) Saharan 15) Skip 16) Skip out on 17) Strand 18) Walkouton 19) Waste 20) Wasteland 21) Wilderness
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an area that receives an average annual precipitation of less than 250 mm (9.8 in) or an area in which more water is lost than falls as precipitation.
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• (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island. • (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used ...
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An area, either hot or cold, where the annual precipitation is less than 25 cm (10 in).
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any large, extremely dry area of land with sparse vegetation. It is one of the Earth`s major types of ecosystems, supporting a community of ... [16 related articles]
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Terkezi Oasis in the Sahara Desert. Credit: NASA An area where life has extreme difficulty in surviving. Deserts cover about one third of the Earth's land area. There are two types. Hot deserts These typically lie between latitudes 20° and 30° north and south, though they also exist...
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Receiving less than 10 inches of precipitation annually.
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Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island. 'He . . . Went aside privately into a desert place.' (Luke ix. 10) 'Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. ... <botany> ' (Gray) Desert ...
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v. To deliberately discard a person or thin.
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A region with an average annual rainfall of 10 inches or less and sparse vegetation, typically having thin, dry, and crumbly soil. A desert has an aridity index greater than 4.0.
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Des'ert (dĕz'ẽrt)
noun [ French
désert , Latin
desertum , from
desertus solitary, desert, pp. of
deserere to desert;
de- +
serere to join together. See
Series .]
1. A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supp...
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Des'ert adjective [ Confer Latin
desertus , past participle of
deserere , and French
désert . See 2d
Desert .] Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a
desert isla...
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De·sert' (de*zẽrt')
noun [ Old French
deserte ,
desserte , merit, recompense, from
deservir ,
desservir , to merit. See
Deserve .] That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; m...
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De·sert' intransitive verb To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond. « The soldiers . . .
deserted in numbers.»
Bancroft. Syn. -- To abandon; forsake; leave; relinquish; renounce; ...
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To intentionally abandon a person or thing.
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(1) Biome that has plants and animals adapted to survive severe drought conditions. In this habitat, evaporation exceeds precipitation and the average amount of precipitation is less than 25 centimeters a year. (2) Area that receives low precipitation. Also see cold desert and warm desert.
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An arid area with little vegetation that is not necessarily sandy, the lack of rainfall is the determining factor.
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region getting less than 10 inches of rain per year.
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desert 1. To leave (a person, place, etc.) without intending to return; especially, in violation of a duty, promise, or the like: 'He deserted his wife.' 2. With reference to military personnel, to leave or run away from (service, duty, etc.) with the intention of never returning. 3. To fail (someone) at a time of need: 'He felt that all of his fr...
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Click images to enlargeArid area with sparse vegetation (or, in rare cases, almost no vegetation). Soils are poor, and many deserts include areas of shifting sands. Deserts can be either hot or cold. Almost 33% of the Earth's land surface is desert, and this proportion is increasing. Arid land is defined as receiv...
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Land on which the vegetation is absent or sparse, usually shrubby, and is characterised by an arid, hot to cool climate.
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dry land with few trees and little rainfall; West
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a region with very low rainfall. Most deserts are hot, like the Sahara, but there are cold deserts, too.
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a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all: The Sahara is a vast sandy desert. · any area in which few forms of life can exist because of lack of water, permanent frost, or absence of soil. · an area of the ocean in which it is believed no marine life ex...
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