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Definition of Deserts
1. Noun. An outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved.
Definition of Deserts
1. Noun. (plural of desert) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deserts
1. desert [v] - See also: desert
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deserts
Literary usage of Deserts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Human Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, Sumner W. Cushing (1922)
"CHAPTER XVI MODES OF LIFE IN deserts AND POLAR REGIONS THE great deserts that
border the torrid zone comprise the intensely hot and dry regions of Arabia, ..."
2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"CHAPTER IX deserts Introduction. Distribution and climate of deserts in general, i.
The deserts of the Eastern Hemisphere, i. The Desert District of North ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1883)
"It is therefore not surprising that the two largest deserts of the world, viz., the
Sahara in Africa and the Gobi in Asia, have been, or are even sometimes ..."
4. The physical geography of the sea by Matthew Fontaine Maury (1855)
"Effect of deserts upon the Trade-winds, 466. —At Sea the Laws of Atmospherical
Circulation are better developed, 470.—RAIN WINDS : Precipitation on Land ..."
5. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"PLAINS, STEPPES AND deserts significant only as a means to secure a far-flung
boundary line. From these low, accessible plains of adequate rainfall. ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Nevertheless West Turkestan is sharply divided into two parts,—the highlands in
the south-east and the plains and deserts in the north-west. ..."
7. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1892)
"A Comparison of the deserts of North America with those of North Africa and ...
Johannes Walther made some interesting observations on the deserts of North ..."
8. Herodotus by Herodotus (1828)
"Such are the means which the Persians have constantly adopted to provide themselves
with water in these deserts, from the time that they were first masters ..."
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