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- noun Plural form of
semidesert .
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Examples
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To the east, in Texas, the grasslands grade into savanna woodland or semideserts composed of xerophytic shrubs and trees, and the climate becomes semiarid-subtropical.
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A variety of landscapes range from foothill semideserts to alpine meadows, combined with characteristic mountain forests.
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In the central Transcaucasian Depression, swamp forests, steppes, and arid woodlands are replaced by semideserts and deserts along the Caspian Sea.
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Why do you look for temperature proxies in semideserts and swamps?
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Both the Cuban and the Jamaican hutias occur in a variety of habitats from montane cloud forests to arid coastal semideserts.
15 Agouti 1991
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With the exception of subtropical arid regions (deserts and semideserts), all tropical climates are characterized by:
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The adjoining area in Central Asia desert is comprised of steppes sagebrush-grass and semishrub semideserts of the North Tian Shan region as depicted in Pereladova’s map of Central Asian ecosystems.
Emin Valley steppe 2007
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