What is "semiarid"

Usage examples of "semiarid".

He was surprised to see a pasture and a solid row of ponderosa trees amid the semiarid landscape.

Now a great belt of semiarid scrub spread around the old track of the Tethys, across North America, southern Eurasia, and northern Africa.

Underground Gardens had inspired the first psi-Xtians to live in solar-powered homes dug into fans of hard alluvial clay in deserts and semiarid regions throughout the world.

The semiarid zones extended roughly between latitudes 20 and 30 in both northern and southern hemispheres.

Some semiarid land was desert grassland and some was scrub woodland, grading into forest toward both equator and middle latitudes.

Winter cold increases westward and northward, until the Upper Valley ranges from cool-temperate semiarid to subarctic north of Lake Ochrid.

Climate ranging from humid subtropical on the coast, to semiarid in some river valleys, to moist temperate and cool in the interior plateaus and mountains.

All around was a semiarid landscape, not quite a desert but not a particularly hospitable place, either.

This was understandable, as water was as essential to life as hunting ability in this semiarid desert.

Harry turned his gaze out the window, to the semiarid landscape beyond the Legion camp.

It is just outside the city of Hissim, on the semiarid Mog-Gim Plateau bordering the Great Aridimi Desert.

He'd been a Survey Candidate on Khali II and Taret and Arepo I, all of which were tropical, and a junior officer on Menes Ill and Thotmes-one a semiarid planet and the other temperate-volcanic-and he'd done an assistant job on Saril's solitary world, which was nine-tenths water.