Definition of Sonoran Desert

1. Noun. A desert in southwestern Arizona.

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sonoran Desert

Songhai
Songo fever
Songun
Sonia
Sonjo
Sonne
Sonne bacillus
Sonne dysentery
Sonny
Sonny Liston
Sonoma
Sonora
Sonora gum
Sonora lac
Sonora semiannulata
Sonoran Desert (current term)
Sonoran desert toad
Sonoran lyre snake
Sonoran whipsnake
Sony
Sonya
Soonamookee
Soonee
Soonees
Sooner
Sooner State
Sooners
Sooretama slaty antshrike
Sophene
Sophia

Literary usage of Sonoran Desert

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

1. Source Book for the Economic Geography of North America by Charles Carlyle Colby (1921)
"THE Sonoran Desert The Sonoran Desert occupies a wedge-shaped portion of northwestern Mexico, including most of Lower California and extending as far south ..."

2. Investigations of Infra-red Spectra by William Weber Coblentz (1908)
"The river cuts directly into the gravelly plain or mesa of the Sonoran Desert at four points on the eastern margin of the delta (plate 32). ..."

3. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"We examined variation in the number of vascular plant species per 1 ° latitude x 1 ° longitude in digitized inventories for the Sonoran Desert, ..."

4. The Water-balance of Succulent Plants by Daniel Trembly MacDougal, E. S. Spalding (1910)
"PHYSIOGRAPHIC, CLIMATIC, AND FLORISTIC FEATURES OF THE Sonoran Desert. The region in which are found the plants that were made the subject of the ..."

5. Making Sense: Small-Group Comprehension Lessons for English Language Learners by Juli Kendall, Outey Khuon (2005)
"Relate the text directly to the topic of the Sonoran Desert by telling students, "We're going to read a book about an artist who lives in the Sonoran Desert ..."

6. Desert Dancing: Exploring the Land, the People, the Legends of the ...by Len Wilcox by Len Wilcox (2000)
"The California segment of the Sonoran Desert is known as the Colorado Desert ... The Sonoran Desert is 120000 square miles of low country, covering the land ..."

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