Kalahari Desert
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- proper noun
- /ˈkɑːləˌhɑːri ˈdɛzərt/
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desierto de Kalahari
- During our safari, we saw lions roaming freely in the vast Kalahari Desert.
- Kalahari Desert in Botswana
- edge of the Kalahari Desert
- Africa's Kalahari Desert
Examples
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After visiting three different national parks on the northern edge of the Kalahari Desert, we drove to Maun to board a ten-passenger plane for a flight to the Okavango Delta.
Academic text (1994) -
It's said you can hear your own blood flow in this vast area of dried-up salt pans in the Kalahari Desert, a forbidding landscape formed by a huge lake that dried up millennia ago.
Blog text (14) -
June, in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa
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The photo above, shot in the Kalahari Desert, is of a flap-necked chameleon.
Fiction book (1993) -
The Okavango Delta, Botswana, is a major wetland surrounded by the Kalahari Desert.
Academic text (2009) -
They are pied babblers and they also live in tight knit family groups in the Kalahari Desert, and in fact they're the species that I studied for my PhD.
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The Okavango Delta, Botswana, a giant oasis in the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa, is an immense alluvial fan created by the rivers that drain the highlands of Angola.
Academic text (2009) -
The Kalahari Desert is home to unique wildlife, including the famous meerkat colonies.
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Travelers often seek adventure in the remote areas of the Kalahari Desert, where they can explore ancient rock art.
Synonyms
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A large desert region in southwestern Africa, mainly in Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is fully compositional: 'Kalahari' names a specific place and 'desert' describes a large arid region, so a learner who knows both constituents can infer it refers to the desert region in southwestern Africa. Proper-name + noun constructions are cross-linguistically common and therefore immediately interpretable by B1 learners who know the component words.
Etymology
Kalahari Desert comes from a local word that means 'great thirst' or 'a place without water', because the land is very dry and has little water. That's why the name fits this large, dry region.