What is "semidesert"

Usage examples of "semidesert".

The forest covered a sizable piece of land, eventually filtering down into a terrain of semidesert, dotted with sagebrush and mesquite.

The road just faded out into the semidesert, vanishing into a deeply rutted dirt trail.

Even in the shade, it was hot, but nothing like the searing semidesert they had left behind.

California was a semidesert land and the desert cools off quickly at night.

And those portions of land that are only semidesert are at most sparsely populated.

Born in 1908, Jack lived in Mexico and West Texas before the family moved by covered wagon to a semidesert homestead in eastern New Mexico.

The semidesert air from the open windows washed across his damp skin, but the change seemed to be welcome to him, because he rolled onto his side and his half-open eyes closed again.

Darfur, though, lying some six hundred miles across scorching semidesert plains to the west of the middle Nile, or nearly halfway between the Nile and the Niger, a group of ruins of widely different period and appearance can still yield some notion of the extent and variety, whether Islamic or Christian, of these east-west contacts through many centuries.

Perhaps it lies as well in the difference between the autocracy that proved so easily attainable and convenient in small rivervalley settlements surrounded by sand or semidesert, and the tribal democracy or sense of community which inspired these migratory peoples -- peoples who had spread across a continent that knew no natural frontiers, or none which could not easily be crossed.

STAR TREK BOG ONB 77 No one would miss a descent to the dry, semidesert sew lion they would eventually arrive at, however.

They were rare in this semidesert hill country, but here and there flowed a stream, and then sooner or later there would be a village with lonely isolated farms scattered about it.

Wtlson work just as hard as it had been in crossing the lower, hotter, semidesert terrain.

The two clerics, one the prelate of the provincial town of Develtos, the other an abbot in the semidesert far southwest, were fanatical enough to make even Pyrrhos seem mild by comparison.

The metropolis had pushed eastward about thirty-five kilometers, so that the former semidesert was now solid buildings, houses, and streets.

Half of this was arid, semidesert prairie, and the other half mountains.