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- adjective of or pertaining to a
desert or deserts
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Examples
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This desertic ecoregion extends from the Madrean Archipelago in southeastern Arizona to the Edwards Plateau in south-central Texas.
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Under the intense sunlight the harsh red-brown desertic coloring streaked with basalt and, in season, bright with flowers, are very striking.
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From an ecological perspective, mangroves might be very important, since in barren areas that otherwise are deprived of any vegetation, such as coastal strips in desertic areas, mangrove woodlands can offer exceptional opportunities for resting, feeding, sheltering and nursing to faunal elements.
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Despite it was hollydays, every single public worker as well as individual came back or get out their home and we fixed electricity as well as all the disaster within a few days, even in our very desertic area.
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And we are in the middle of a sterile, arid, desertic, moon-like landscape, at 11000ft, on the polar plateau.
To the Ends of the Earth cjohnson 2006
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"It contributes to warming, especially in urban and desertic areas."
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What I claimed is that, like Lowell came up with the vision of a desertic Mars in need of massive irrigation projects in order to support his design inference that the Martian lines he saw through his telescope were bona fide channels, Wells came up with an extremely convoluted and implausible model of how two turbines may work during cell division, in order to support his intuitive design inference that centrioles are turbines because they look like turbines.
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In semi-desertic northern Peru oil is being drilled by pumps. (near Los
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