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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An area of desert from which the wind has removed most of the fine-grained sand, leaving a hard, flat surface strewn with rounded pebbles.

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  • noun a desert of pebbles or larger stones

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Of North African origin; akin to Tamahaq (Tuareg Berber language of southern Algeria, dialect of the Ahaggar Mountains) asrir.]

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