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semi-desert

semi-desert is the alternative form of semidesert.

Meaning of semidesert

Noun

semidesert (plural semideserts)

  1. A semiarid region, approaching desert conditions.
    • The attacks throw a region sundered by conflict into still deeper chaos as a volatile mix of rebels, government forces and ethnic militias jockey to control a vast and unforgiving stretch of semidesert that straddles the two troubled countries.2008 February 11, Lydia Polgreen, “Attacks Pushing Darfur Refugees Into Chad”, in New York Times

Forms of semi-desert

pluralsemi-deserts

Origin of semi-desert

From semi- + desert.

Questions about semi-desert

What is semi-desert the alternative form of?
Semi-desert is the alternative form of semidesert.

Words near semi-desert in the dictionary

  1. semi-decent
  2. semi-decidability
  3. semi-decidable
  4. semi-deponent
  5. semi-deponents
  6. semi-desert
  7. semi-deserts
  8. semi-detached
  9. semi-detacheds
  10. semi-detachment
  11. semi-diarrhea

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Adapted from Wiktionary: semi-desert (page history and authors); semidesert (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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