AUSTRALIAN DESERT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Australian Desert mean? 

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

1. general name given to all desert areas in Australia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• AUSTRALIAN DESERT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

General name given to all desert areas in Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Australian Desert; Great Australian Desert

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Meronyms (parts of "Australian Desert"):

outback (the bush country of the interior of Australia)

Never-Never (the remote outback of Australia; unpopulated desert country)

Gibson Desert (a desert area in western Australia)

Great Sandy Desert (a desert region in northwestern Australia to the north of the Gibson Desert)

Great Victoria Desert (a desert region in south central Australia to the north of the Nullarbor Plain)

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

Australia (the smallest continent; between the South Pacific and the Indian Ocean)