semiarid in English

adjective

somewhat arid, having some of the characteristics of a desert

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1. Arid regions cober arid and semiarid areas.

2. North China is situated in arid and semiarid regions.

3. Terpenoids are more prevalent in some arid or semiarid climates.

4. The region is semiarid to arid in overall climate.

5. Tajikistan's climate is continental, subtropical, and semiarid, with some desert areas.

6. Shortage of water resources restricted agricultural production in arid and semiarid region.

7. Desertification drains an arid or semiarid land of its life - supporting capabilities.

8. Both places represent semiarid savannas and have repeatedly been affected by drought and famine.

9. Dryland farming is such an agricultural type fed by annual rainfall in arid and semiarid area.

10. A vast semiarid grass-covered plain, as found in southeast Europe, Siberia, and central North America.

11. The funnel shaped catchment afforestation is a new forestry technique in semiarid loess hilly area.

12. Arad was an ancient city located in the semiarid area called the Negeb, considerably south of Jerusalem.

13. The salinity of lake water is a sensitive monitor of climate in arid and semiarid region.

14. Arid and extremely arid land are deserts, and semiarid grasslands generally are referred to as steppes.

15. Sedimentary facies indicate that the Bayan Mandahu redbeds were deposited in semiarid, alluvial to eolian environments.

16. Psalm 23 equates an abundant life with an overflowing Cup, a potent image in a semiarid world.

17. The paleoenvironment of the Djadokhta Formation is interpreted as having a semiarid climate, with sand dune and alluvial settings.

18. Aardvark, (Orycteropus afer), also called antbear, stocky African mammal found south of the Sahara Desert in savanna and semiarid areas

19. Calcareous soils where lithogenic and secondary carbonates are important constituents of the soil mineral matrix abound in many arid and semiarid areas

20. They are adaptable and can live nearly anywhere in this wide range, but are most common in the savannah and semiarid plains.

21. Moist wind, blown inland from the Indian Ocean across semiarid lowlands, hits the mountain and is deflected upward where it condenses and produces rainfall.

22. Agave, genus of the some 200 species of the family Asparagaceae, native to arid and semiarid regions of the Americas, particularly Mexico, and the Caribbean

23. In the wild, javelinas run in packs and kill mountain lions and other wildlife, but ordinarily they eat cacti, acorns and the plants of semiarid regions.

24. In the past the knowledge on agriculture issues in semiarid areas had obvious defect and now the agriculture issues should be observed and understood from a new angle.

25. Coccidioidomycosis definition, a disease caused by inhaling spores of Coccidioides fungi, characterized by fever, respiratory infection, and reddish bumps on the skin, common in hot, semiarid regions, especially in southwestern U

26. The infection is not transmitted person to person and is caused by the fungus Coccidioides immitis, which is found in soil in certain semiarid areas of North and South America.

27. Between the humid Mediterranean coast and the arid desert regions lies a semiarid steep zone extending across three-quarters of the country, which receives hot, dry winds blowing across the desert.

28. Arroyo, also called Wadi, Wash, Dry Wash, or Coulee, Arabic Wādī, French Oued, a dry channel lying in a semiarid or desert area and subject to flash flooding during seasonal or irregular rainstorms.

29. The bitter South African melon first collected by Thunberg has become naturalized in semiarid regions of several continents, and is designated as a "pest plant" in parts of Western Australia where they are called pig melon.

30. Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever) is a dustborne, noncontagious infection caused by the dimorphic fungus Coccidioides immitis.Infections are limited to arid and semiarid regions of the southwestern USA and to similar areas of Mexico and Central and South America.

31. Bajada, (Spanish: “slope”,) also spelled Bahada, broad slope of debris spread along the lower slopes of mountains by descending streams, usually found in arid or semiarid climates; the term was adopted because of its use in the U.S

32. Up to 10% cash back  · A Spanish term bajada, often anglicized to Bahada, which stems from the semiarid south-western United States, is applied to broad slopes of detrital alluvial outwash, which is often in the form of multiple coalescing alluvialfans or cones …

33. We assessed the effects of soybean residue (SR) and wheat residue (WR) applied either alone or in combination with fertilizer P (FP) on dynamics of labile P, distribution of P fractions, and P sorption in a semiarid tropical Alfisol by conducting a 16 w long incubation experiment.

34. It occurs worldwide, in Aridisol and mollisol soil orders—generally in arid or semiarid regions, including in central and western Australia, in the Kalahari Desert, in the High Plains of the western USA, in the Sonoran Desert and Mojave Desert, and in Eastern Saudi Arabia at Al-Hasa

35. Throughout the arid and semiarid regions of the southwestern United States, there is an Altitudinal zonation of vegetation with xerophytic desert scrub (commonly sagebrush, evergreen creosote bush, and evergreen blackbrush) at lower elevations, grading into mesophytic woodland (juniper, piñon pine, and live oak) at successively higher elevations (Figure 11.13).

36. An Afforested plantation composed of trees planted to shelter farmland and agricultural crops from the effects of wind, potentially reduce soil erosion, or serve as a source of fuelwood or income in an arid or semiarid agricultural environment is commonly called a shelterbelt.In this context, shelterbelts are commonly established as an element of an agroforestry system.

37. The importance of the characteristics of the diurnal Bedsites used by male and female deer (Odocoileus virginianus texanus) in hot (> 40 °C), dry (< 400 mm rainfall per year) semiarid zones with xerophyllous brushland was analyzed.From December 1997 to October 1998, on six occasions, seven-km-long random transects were surveyed on horseback on different periods and days during …

38. As nouns the difference between mollisol and Alfisol is that mollisol is (us soil taxonomy) a type of soil that forms in semiarid to semihumid areas, typically under a grassland cover, with deep, high organic matter and a nutrient-enriched surface soil (or horizon) while Alfisol is an abundant soil order in the usda soil taxonomy, with a clay-enriched subsoil and relatively high native