TURKESTAN DESERT

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Turkestan Desert mean? 

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

1. a desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURKESTAN DESERT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kara Kum; Qara Qum; Turkestan Desert

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

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

Turkmen; Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen (a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991)