Definition of semidesert
: an arid area that has some of the characteristics of a desert but has greater annual precipitation
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Within days, the deaths of the four American soldiers in the remote West African semidesert had veered into the incendiary issue of race relations in the United States.
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First Known Use of semidesert
1845
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