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drylands

drylands is the plural of dryland.

Meaning of dryland

Noun

dryland (countable and uncountable, plural drylands)

  1. (attributive, often) Land that is arid, but not so dry as to be a desert.
    • Semi-arid cropping systems in India, and to a greater extent in Indo-China and east Indonesia, use dryland or upland rice when possible during the wet season.1995, C. J. Pearson, D. W. Norman, J. Dixon, Sustainable Dryland Cropping in Relation to Soil Productivity, Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization, →ISBN, page 81, UN call number FAO(05)/S6/no.72/ENG

Questions about drylands

What is drylands the plural of?
Drylands is the plural of dryland.

Words near drylands in the dictionary

  1. dryinids
  2. dryish
  3. dryland
  4. drylander
  5. drylanders
  6. drylands
  7. Drylaw
  8. dryline
  9. drylined
  10. dryliner
  11. dryliners

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