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Definition of Gila desert
1. Noun. A desert area in southern Arizona.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gila Desert
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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