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Definition of Desertic
1. arid and barren [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desertic
Literary usage of Desertic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1891)
"Appeal to distributional systematist and palaeontologist : their reliance on
desertic environment. Case of hawthorn, thorny and thornless species. ..."
2. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Some have functional fore-limbs but mere vestiges of hind-limbs; in others this
condition is reversed. In some desertic- olous kinds eg ..."
3. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1920)
"... relatively long leaves finds its ultimate expression in the vegetation of
extremely dry regions. A preliminary survey of the leaves of desertic and arid ..."
4. United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective by Ibrahim Abed, Peter Hellyer (2001)
"... 1999b; Müller 1999) in the sandy desertic area near the Sharjah International
Airport. Many other sites, both graves and settlements, have been located, ..."
5. Key to the Exercises Adapted to Murray's English Grammar: Calculated to by Lindley Murray (1815)
"All the power of ridicule, aided by the desertic of friends, and the diminution
of his estate, nas n able to shake his principles. ..."
6. Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India by Geological Survey of India (1904)
"But the same proposition would not hold good with respect to the amount of land
cultivated : with an annual rainfall of about five inches, desertic ..."
7. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"... also in the Libyan Desert of northern Africa and in the semi-desertic regions
of southern and southwestern Algeria. They are highly prized by the Arabs, ..."
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