semiarid

Examples

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• Since the region is either arid or semiarid, it is chronically short of continually available surface-water resources.

  Academic text (2005)

• Sorghum is an indigenous African crop that grows in semiarid areas.

  Academic text (2008)

• In semiarid regions on Earth, there are certain organisms... that live in small pools that are formed by the annual rains.

  Ghosts of Mars (2001)

• The wheat crop, grown mostly in semiarid northern China, is particularly vulnerable to water shortages.

  Academic text (2008)

• Several of these pockets are in western, semiarid locations where the availability of locally grown seasonal fruits is restricted.

  Academic text (2003)

• But arid and semiarid rangelands make up about 40 percent of the Earth's land surface.

  Academic text (1994)

• The interior Karoo region has a semiarid climate, with cold winters and hot summers, which bring occasional thunderstorms.

  Academic text (2008)

• Sixty million poor people depend on herding in semiarid rangelands that they share with large mammals and other wildlife.

  Academic text (2004)

• Over the centuries, the Sukuma have adjusted to the precariousness of cultivation in a semiarid region.

  Academic text (1991)

• Using irrigation water from Andean snowmelt, growers produce Mediterranean crops in this semiarid environment.

  Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

S

semidesert

vssemiarid

6.2

A dry area near a desert that has more rain and plants

focuses on low annual rainfall as a climate measure not on a border region

S

semi-dry

vssemiarid

3.8

Partly dry and still a little wet

indicates specifically low annual rainfall as a climate classification

Antonyms

H

humid

45 1.0

Air that has a lot of water and feels damp

W

wet

1 1.0

A place or thing covered with liquid

How Dry

arid

19 4.0

semiarid

1 6.1

dry

791 1.0

moist

105 1.0

wet

1 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology