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GIBSON DESERT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gibson Desert mean?
• GIBSON DESERT (noun)
The noun GIBSON DESERT has 1 sense:
1. a desert area in western Australia
Familiarity information: GIBSON DESERT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A desert area in western Australia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)
Holonyms ("Gibson Desert" is a part of...):
Australia; Commonwealth of Australia (a nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; Aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony)
Australian Desert; Great Australian Desert (general name given to all desert areas in Australia)
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