semiarid

• “The transition regions between deserts and grasslands are sometimes called semiarid deserts (e.g. the Great Basin of the western United States).”

  AP Environmental Science Chapter 5- The Biosphere

• “The Chacoan peccary is specialised for life in semiarid forests and steppes.”

  Archive 2006-07-01

• “The region was described as semiarid; the nearest weather station, Lehman Caves National Monument, about 4 miles east and 3000 ft lower, had a mean annual rainfall of 12.8 20 years to 1964.”

  Cutting Down the Oldest Living Tree in the World « Climate Audit

• “Colorado Springs is classified as semiarid, or half-desert, because it normally get 16 ...”

  Gazette.com :

• “You can't grow plants native to the semiarid Middle East in Florida.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Gardens of Eden Sprout in Synagogue and Church Yards, but They Aren't Very Fruitful

• “Drought declarations may attract headlines, but they are meaningless in semiarid regions where dry years are endemic and drought cycles are a way of life.”

  The Huffington Post: Brian Fagan: Delusion! Delusion! What Drought Is Over?

• “If left unaddressed, then you could have a network that ranges from East Africa through the center and into the Sahel semiarid region and Maghreb, and I think that would be very, very worrying," he said.”

  The Huffington Post: African Islamist groups seen as U.S. threat: general

• “Especially in semiarid regions like Israel, this retention of water is of vital importance.”

  Simon & Schuster: Modern Science in the Bible

• “In this semiarid land water was the great wealth, then as now.”

  Simon & Schuster: Bird Cloud

• “Climate: Tropical; semiarid where mountains in east cut off trade winds.”

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