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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 Sudanplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LIBYAN DESERT (noun)


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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