semidesert
nounEtymology From semi- + desert.
1
A semiarid region, approaching desert conditions.
- 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.2008 February 11, Lydia Polgreen, “Attacks Pushing Darfur Refugees Into Chad”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- semidesertic