Definition of Kalahari Desert

1. Noun. A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Kalahari Desert

Kaiserling's fixative
Kaissariani
Kaithi
Kaitij
Kaitlin
Kaitlyn
Kajkavian
Kakatoe
Kakatoe galerita
Kakatoe leadbeateri
Kakemono
Kala Lagaw Ya
Kalaallisut
Kalaallit Nunaat
Kalahari
Kalahari Desert (current term)
Kalamazoo
Kalamazooan
Kalamazooans
Kalamazoos
Kalami
Kalanga
Kalapooia
Kalapooian
Kalapuya
Kalapuyan
Kalashnikov
Kalashnikov culture
Kalderash
Kaleb

Literary usage of Kalahari Desert

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

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1879)
"The Kalahari Desert is 900 miles in length, and in some places 500 miles in breadth, and contains upwards of 260000 square miles, exclusive of some 20000 ..."

2. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa: Including a Sketch of by David Livingstone (1858)
"Edible Frogs.—Scavenger Beetle.—Continued Hostility of the Boers.—The Journey north.—Preparations.—Fellow-travelers.—The Kalahari Desert.—Vegetation. ..."

3. A Physical, Historical, Political, & Descriptive Geography by Alexander Keith Johnston, Ernest George Ravenstein (1885)
"THE Kalahari Desert. 84. The Kalahari represents the area of the interior of South Africa which is most deficient in moisture supply, ..."

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