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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A desert of northwest China in the Tarim Basin between the Tian Shan and the Kunlun Mountains.

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  • a desert in central asia whose name means in Uighur : 'You come in and never come out'

    January 14, 2010