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SONORAN DESERT
Dictionary entry overview: What does Sonoran Desert mean?
• SONORAN DESERT (noun)
The noun SONORAN DESERT has 1 sense:
1. a desert in southwestern Arizona
Familiarity information: SONORAN DESERT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A desert in southwestern Arizona
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)
Holonyms ("Sonoran Desert" is a part of...):
Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State (a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon)
Context examples
People in the Sonoran Desert and Tonto Basin, in what is today Arizona, were more culturally advanced, with irrigation, ball courts, and eventually elevated platform mounds and compounds housing elite families.
(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)
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