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Answer for the clue "Desert north of the Hexi Corridor ", 4 letters:
gobi

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
desert in central Asia, from Mongolian gobi "desert." Gobi Desert is thus a pleonasm (see Sahara ).

Usage examples of gobi.

Gobi saw that the Bangladeshis had perfected a technique for packing the energy effluents into long, sausage-shaped containers that they wore around their necks and down their backs.

An international team of paleoseismologists was assembled, and I was called from the Great Boneyard of the Gobi by my superiors at the Mongolian Academy of Sciences at Ulan Bator to leave my triceratops and fly to the middle of hell on earth, the great sand ocean of the Sahara, to assist in excavating and analyzing what some said would be the discovery of the age.

Joint Chiefs of Staff that the responsibility for determining whether or not the Americans in the Gobi Desert can be used to set up a weather station and get it running will be given to the OSS.

He had found remnants of Therapeutae and Anchorites in the Mideast, and even a trio of Stylites, each sitting alone atop a stone pillar in the Gobi Desert.

It was then that the process really began that would lead to such dishes as lorne sausage shami kebab, rabbit masala, fruit pudding chaat, skink aloo, porridge tarka, shell pie aloo gobi, kipper bhoona, chips pea pulao, whelk poori and marmalade kulfi, and I think the world is a better place for all of them.

I saw Mongol warriors spitting carnosaurs on their lances, brown-skinned men in stained leathers and steel helmets, riding tough little Gobi ponies, who would give rise in later generations to splendid tales of knights in shining armor slaying fire-breathing dragons to save enchanted princesses.

A friend of Pauline's saw him in town eating aloo gobi and pilau rice with a side order of brindal bhaji!

Where it would grow, they introduced camel sage, onion grass, gobi feather grass, wild alfalfa, burrow bush, sand verbena, evening primrose, incense bush, smoke tree, creosote bush.

While at Ewa, Lieutenant Stevenson had trained him in the use of the radio direction finder, even though he suspected that the instrument wasn't going to work very well when they reached the Gobi.

But Gobi Aloo Sag is yellow, so I put red food coloring into it before I eat it.

On the oasis edge he could see camel sage, onion grass, gobi feather grass, wild alfalfa.

My Aunt Agatha, for instance, is tall and thin and looks rather like a vulture in the Gobi desert, while Aunt Dahlia is short and solid, like a scrum half in the game of Rugby football.

After the, sudden establishment of the Third Power in the Gobi Desert the securities market had taken a deep dive.

Eight hundred feet below, camel caravans driven by servitors and followed by voynix padded in on the hard-packed Gobi Highway.

Now she was entering the second of her craft's three modules, called the command compartment, which she would ride to orbit - and home to Earth again, to her planned soft landing in the Gobi Desert.