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

  • noun An area receiving relatively little rainfall, such as a savanna or prairie, or almost no rainfall at all, such as a desert.

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  • noun land that is arid, but not so dry as to be a desert.

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