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GREAT VICTORIA DESERT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Great Victoria Desert mean? 

GREAT VICTORIA DESERT (noun)
  The noun GREAT VICTORIA DESERT has 1 sense:

1. a desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plainplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GREAT VICTORIA DESERT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Holonyms ("Great Victoria Desert" is a part of...):

Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)

Australian Desert; Great Australian Desert (general name given to all desert areas in Australia)


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