SAHARAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Saharan mean? 

• SAHARAN (noun)
  The noun SAHARAN has 1 sense:

1. a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad

  Familiarity information: SAHARAN used as a noun is very rare.

• SAHARAN (adjective)
  The adjective SAHARAN has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or located in the Sahara Desert

  Familiarity information: SAHARAN used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SAHARAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Saharan" is a kind of...):

Nilo-Saharan; Nilo-Saharan language (a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania)

• SAHARAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or located in the Sahara Desert

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Sahara (the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa)

 Context examples 

Until recently, it was thought that only people outside sub-Saharan Africa had Neanderthal DNA.

(Global human genome study reveals our complex evolutionary history, University of Cambridge)

A joint report from the United Nations and the European Union found that millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from acute food shortage each year.

(Poor Diet Kills More People Than Smoking, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Most cases can be successfully treated, but nearly 1 million still die of the disease every year, including about 800,000 children under age 5 in Sub-Saharan Africa.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

Dairy products, eggs and white meat were very expensive in most low-income and lower middle–income countries, while most fruit and vegetables were relatively expensive in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.

(High cost of healthy food to blame for malnutrition, SciDev.Net)

It is transmitted by flies and is endemic in various regions of Sub-Saharan Africa.

(African Trypanosomiasis, NCI Thesaurus)

A new paper describes the Trans-Saharan Seaway that existed 50 to 100 million years ago in the region of the current Sahara Desert.

(Ancient Saharan seaway illustrates how Earth’s climate and creatures can undergo extreme change, National Science Foundation)

The greater honeyguide is widely found in sub-Saharan Africa, where its unassuming brown plumage belies its complex interactions with other species.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Therefore, they explored the potential of using light to control mosquitoes’ feeding behaviour by exposing Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes — a key vector of malaria in Sub-Saharan Africa — to multiple pulses of bright light, especially in the night, when they are most likely to feed on human blood.

(Shining light at night quells mosquito bites, SciDev.Net)

Some 1.8–4.1 billion people living in the developing countries of South Asia, South-East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are vulnerable to heat-related stress, and lack access to technology to cool their living spaces, according to new estimates.

(Billions at risk from heat stress at home, SciDev.Net)

When complete, the atlas will consist of photos of physical traits of people with many different inherited diseases around the world, including Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, South America and sub-Saharan Africa.

(NIH creates Atlas of Human Malformation Syndromes in Diverse Populations, NIH)