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LIBYAN DESERT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Libyan Desert mean?
• LIBYAN DESERT (noun)
The noun LIBYAN DESERT has 1 sense:
1. the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan
Familiarity information: LIBYAN DESERT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)
Holonyms ("Libyan Desert" is a part of...):
Arab Republic of Egypt; Egypt; United Arab Republic (a republic in northeastern Africa known as the United Arab Republic until 1971; site of an ancient civilization that flourished from 2600 to 30 BC)
Libya; Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum)
Republic of the Sudan; Soudan; Sudan (a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956)
Sahara; Sahara Desert (the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa)
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