Saharan

adjective

Sa·​ha·​ran -rən 

variants or less commonly Saharian

-rēən

: of, relating to, characteristic of, or likened to the Sahara Desert

a day of Saharan temperature

a Saharan landscape of blighted fields

Word History

Etymology

Sahara desert + English -an, -ian

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