arid landscape
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5.0
- noun
- /ˈærɪd ˈlændskeɪp/
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paisaje árido
- With its arid landscape, dusty hills, and remarkably few natural resources, the warren-like sassi would finally provide them with the insularity they craved.
Examples
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Looking out over the arid landscape below, she draws an unexpected analogy.
Academic text (2010) -
The father drove through the arid landscape, sunk in his own preoccupations.
Fiction book (1996) -
I look out the window at the arid landscape of Southern California.
Fiction book (1999) -
Parts of the arid landscape opened up, cracking in half.
Fiction book (1996) -
Suddenly they were all together, the three of them holding hands, walking across the vast and arid landscape toward the far horizon.
Fiction book (1996) -
The arid landscape is arresting.
Academic text (1996) -
But that's a very powerful image of an utterly arid landscape.
Blog text (5) -
Trees, tiny green-and-black dots, are scattered across an arid landscape.
Academic text (2011) -
With Gavriel Mani, we must not mind the arid landscape of the desert; on the contrary, we must come to relish the desert views.
Academic text (1999) -
As we traveled through the arid landscape, we saw nothing but dry soil and sparse vegetation.
Synonyms
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1.3
A large dry area with very little rain and few plants
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7.4
An area of land where little grows and people do not live
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5.1
Land that gets very little rain and has no irrigation
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3.9
An area of land with little water and few plants
A rocky desert of flat rock areas with very little sand
Antonyms
How Dry
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a region of land that is extremely dry and lacking vegetation' is directly derivable from combining 'arid' (very dry, cannot support vegetation) with 'landscape' (an expanse of land). This is a straightforward compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Arid landscape shows a clear picture: arid means very dry and landscape means the view of the land, so you can imagine cracked soil, few plants, and wide empty ground. That's why it describes a region that is 'extremely dry and lacking in vegetation'.