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SAHARA DESERT

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa

Synonyms:

Sahara; Sahara Desert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)

Meronyms (parts of "Sahara Desert"):

Libyan Desert (the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan)

Meronyms (members of "Sahara Desert"):

Tuareg (a member of a nomadic Berber people of the Sahara)

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

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

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