NUBIAN DESERT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nubian Desert mean? 

• NUBIAN DESERT (noun)
  The noun NUBIAN DESERT has 1 sense:

1. an arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea

  Familiarity information: NUBIAN DESERT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NUBIAN DESERT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Holonyms ("Nubian Desert" is a part of...):

Republic of the Sudan; Soudan; Sudan (a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956)

Arabian Desert; Great Arabian Desert (a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia)