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Definition: Sahara Desert |
Sahara DesertNoun1. The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in North Africa. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Sahara DesertSynonym: Sahara (n). (additional references) |
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The Sahara Desert is an ecoregion (PA1327). The Sahara is the world's largest desert located in northern Africa.
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Ecozone : Palearctic Biome : Deserts and Xeric Shrublands Climate type : extreme in the dry and hot climate Soil types : face' : 4,639,900 square kilometers (1,791,500 square miles) Conservation status : Vulnerable Global 200 :
Oceans or seas (borders) : from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Rea
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The Sahara was one of Africa to be farmed. However desertification set in around 3000 BC. Some historians and anthropologists have suggested that over-grazing by the domestic animals (particularly pigs) of ancient civilizations of the region was a primary factor in its eventual desertification. The Sahara is largely undisturbed. The most degradation is found in areas where there is water, such as aquifer oases or along the desert margins where some rain usually falls most years. In these areas, animals such as addaxes, scimitar-horned oryxes, and bustards are over-hunted for their meat.
The southern border of the Sahara is marked by the Sahel.
Only one area of conservation is recorded in the Sahara: Zellaf Nature Reserve in Libya (1000 km2) (WCMC 2000).
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Sahara Desert (ecoregion)."
Crosswords: Sahara Desert |
| English words defined with "Sahara Desert": Black Africa, Bubale ♦ Islamic Republic of Mauritania ♦ Libyan Desert ♦ Mauritania, Mauritanie, Muritaniya ♦ Niger ♦ Republic of Niger ♦ Sand pillar, Sub-Saharan Africa ♦ West Africa. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Sahara Desert": hamada, hamadet, hammada, hammadah, hammadat ♦ nedj ♦ rock desert ♦ SAHEL. (references) |
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Lyrics | The Sahara Desert is very big ("Ice Machine In The Desert"; performing artist: Brave Combo) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Biskra and the Sahara Desert (1910) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | A series of rocky outcroppings are a prominent feature of this Sahara Desert landscape near the Terkezi Oasis in the country of Chad.Credit: NASA. |
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Economic History | Morocco | Most people live west of the Atlas Mountains, a range that insulates the country from the Sahara Desert. (references) |
Burkina Faso | Burkina Faso is a landlocked country located in the in the middle of West Africa's "hump." It is geographically in the Sahel--the agricultural region between the Sahara Desert and the coastal rain forests. (references) | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
sahara desert | 606 |
sahara desert picture | 35 |
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| Language | Translations for "Sahara Desert"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | サハラ (sabbatical leave, safari, safari jacket, safari look, safari park, safari rally, sahel, sapience, sapphire, Saturday, savanna, savarin, suffix, supper, supper club, survival, survival foods, survival manual, survival wear). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | サハラさばく. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aharasay esertday.(various references) | |
Russian | пустыня сахара. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Ammomanes deserti, Balanites aegyptiaca, Eremurus, Schistocerca gregaria, Schistocerca peregrina. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-a-d-e-e-h-r-r-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: headrests, rethreads, threaders. | |
-4 letters: adherers, arrested, asserted, asserter, harassed, harasser, headrest, headsets, hetaeras, reassert, rethread, retreads, serrated, serrates, shearers, terrases, threader, treaders. | |
-5 letters: adherer, adheres, aerated, aerates, aethers, arrased, arrases, arrests, darters, dashers, dearest, dearths, deashes, derates, deserts, dessert, dresser, earthed, easters, erasers, erratas, hardest, hardset, hatreds, headers, headset, hearers, hearsed, hearses, hearted, heaters, herders, hetaera, rashers, rashest, rasters, readers, redates, redears, redress, reheard, rehears, reheats, rereads, reseats, resedas, resters, retards, retears, retread, sardars, sataras, searest, seaters, sedater, sedates, serrate, shaders, sharers, sheared, shearer, sradhas, starers, starred, stashed, tearers, teasers, tessera, threads, traders, trashed, trashes, treader, tressed. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 61 68 61 72 61 44 65 73 65 72 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100001 01101000 01100001 01110010 01100001 00100000 01000100 01100101 01110011 01100101 01110010 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S a h a r a   D e s e r t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0061 0068 0061 0072 0061 0044 0065 0073 0065 0072 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5367746784672387185718486 |
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