Definition of Gila Desert

1. Noun. A desert area in southern Arizona.

Generic synonyms: Desert
Group relationships: Arizona, Az, Grand Canyon State

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gila Desert

Gifu
Giganto
Gigantorhynchus
Gigartinaceae
Gigeresque
Giggsy
Gigli
Gigli's saw
Gijón
Gikuyu
Gikyode
Gil
Gil-Vernet operation
Gila
Gila Desert (current term)
Gila River
Gila monster
Gila monsters
Gilaki
Gilbert
Gilbert's syndrome
Gilbert Charles Stuart
Gilbert Islands
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Gilbert Murray
Gilbert Stuart
Gilbert and Ellice Islands
Gilbert and Sullivan
Gilbertese

Literary usage of Gila Desert

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Crofutt's New Overland Tourist, and Pacific Coast Guide ...: Over the Union by George A. Crofutt (1882)
"On the Gila Desert, no tree or shrub grows more than a few feet from the ground, and rattlesnakes, lizards, owls, and woodpeckers are about the only living ..."

2. The Reptile Book: A Comprehensive, Popularised Work on the Structure and by Raymond Lee Ditmars (1907)
"The measurements of an adult male, from the Gila Desert, are given: ... The writer received a specimen from the Gila Desert, south of Phoenix, Arizona. ..."

3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1898)
"Gila desert south of the Bio Gila 4. Colorado desert and interior of Lower California 5. Sierra Madre plateau 6. Mexico between San Luis Potosí and Bio ..."

4. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"... and fertile valley forty or fifty miles long, between the mountains and the Gila desert. About twenty miles of this valley is occupied by these people. ..."

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