KALAHARI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kalahari mean? 

• KALAHARI (noun)
  The noun KALAHARI has 1 sense:

1. a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana

  Familiarity information: KALAHARI used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KALAHARI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kalahari; Kalahari Desert

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Holonyms ("Kalahari" is a part of...):

Namibia; Republic of Namibia; South West Africa (a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa)

Botswana; Republic of Botswana (a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s)

Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))

 Context examples 

Today the Kalahari's wettest areas receive 20 inches of rain each year; its driest, four to eight inches.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

"The shift from traditional pastoralism to borehole-dependent ranching, however, has resulted in the degradation of the Kalahari," says D'Odorico.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

Are we trampling the life out of the Kalahari?

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

In the Kalahari, dune mobilization is ongoing, especially in overgrazed areas close to boreholes and villages, D'Odorico and Okin have found.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

Such dust emissions from the Southern Hemisphere have been relatively low, but reductions in vegetation cover due to land use or climate change may allow new sources like the Kalahari to emerge.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

Where would all that dust—in this case, from Kalahari sands—end up?

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

The introduction of pumps to ferry water from deep under the Kalahari to its surface has provided sustenance for livestock and fostered increasing herd sizes.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

And therein may be the Kalahari's greatest challenge, say scientists Paolo D'Odorico of the University of Virginia and Greg Okin of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

The Kalahari was once a much wetter place, with ancient Lake Makgadikgadi covering today's Makgadikgadi Pan.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

Kalahari, the name conjures an arid, almost lifeless expanse, its red, iron oxide sands stretching to the horizon and beyond.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)