semidesert

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ desert.

Noun

semidesert (plural semideserts)

1. A semiarid region, approaching desert.
   • 2008 February 11, Lydia Polgreen, “Attacks Pushing Darfur Refugees Into Chad”, in New York Times‎:

     The attacks throw a region sundered by conflict into still deeper chaos as a volatile mix of rebels, government forces and ethnic militias jockey to control a vast and unforgiving stretch of semidesert that straddles the two troubled countries.

Alternative forms

• semi-desert

Derived terms

• semidesertic

Translations

semiarid region, approaching desert

Czech: polopoušť f Finnish: puoliaavikko German: Halbwüste (de) f Hungarian: please add this translation if you can Italian: semideserto m, subdeserto m Norwegian: Bokmål: halvørken m Nynorsk: halvørken m Polish: półpustynia (pl) f Portuguese: please add this translation if you can Romanian: semideșert (ro) n Russian: полупусты́ня (ru) f (polupustýnja) Spanish: semidesierto m

Anagrams

• missteered