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SONORAN DESERT

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sonoran Desert mean? 

SONORAN DESERT (noun)
  The noun SONORAN DESERT has 1 sense:

1. a desert in southwestern Arizonaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SONORAN DESERT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A desert in southwestern Arizona

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

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

Arizona; AZ; Grand Canyon State (a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon)


 Context examples 


People in the Sonoran Desert and Tonto Basin, in what is today Arizona, were more culturally advanced, with irrigation, ball courts, and eventually elevated platform mounds and compounds housing elite families.

(Scientists chart a baby boom in southwestern Native Americans from 500 to 1300 A.D., NSF)



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