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FERTILE CRESCENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Fertile Crescent mean?
• FERTILE CRESCENT (noun)
The noun FERTILE CRESCENT has 1 sense:
1. a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
Familiarity information: FERTILE CRESCENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Holonyms ("Fertile Crescent" is a part of...):
Middle East; Mideast; Near East (the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century)
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