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SAHARAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Saharan" is a kind of...):
Nilo-Saharan; Nilo-Saharan language (a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or located in the Sahara Desert
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Sahara (the world's largest desert (3,500,000 square miles) in northern Africa)
Context examples:
In addition to providing new data about species evolution in sub-Saharan Africa, the results contribute to fleshing out the portrait of titanosaurians, which lived in habitats across the globe through the end of the Cretaceous period.
(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)
For example, one such group, the turacos (‘banana eaters’) are fruit-eating birds which are only found in the forests and savannahs of sub-Saharan Africa, but fossils of an early turaco relative have been found in modern-day Wyoming, in the northern United States.
(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)
In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.
(African, NCI Thesaurus)
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) study on dietary risks finds that in southern sub-Saharan Africa, diets low in fruits were the number one reason for diet-related deaths.
(Poor Diet Kills More People Than Smoking, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
