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antidesertification

antidesertification adjective: serving to counter desertification.

Adjective

antidesertification (not comparable)

  1. (environmental science) Serving to counter desertification.
    • At the conference, Gregoire de Kalbermatten, deputy secretary general of the antidesertification group at the United Nations, said, “We need to learn from the resilience of Israel in developing dry lands.”2007 January 2, Dina Kraft, “From Far Beneath the Israeli Desert, Water Sustains a Fertile Enterprise”, in New York Times

Origin of antidesertification

From anti- + desertification.

Questions about antidesertification

What does antidesertification mean?
Antidesertification means serving to counter desertification.
What part of speech is antidesertification?
Antidesertification is an adjective.

Words near antidesertification in the dictionary

  1. antidermatitis
  2. antidermatotic
  3. antidescriptivism
  4. antidesegregation
  5. antideserter
  6. antidesertification
  7. antidesertion
  8. antidesiccant
  9. antidesiccants
  10. antidesign
  11. antidesmin

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