arid
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
arid /ˈarɪd/
▶adjective
- 1 (of land or a climate) very dry; having little or no rain.
- 2 uninteresting: arid verse.
– derivatives
aridity noun,
aridly adverb,
aridness noun.
aridity noun,
aridly adverb,
aridness noun.
– origin C17: from Fr. aride or L. aridus, from arere ‘be dry or parched’.
'arid' also found in these Oxford entries:
caatinga
- cactus
- calcrete
- camel
- coccidioidomycosis
- creosote bush
- desert rose
- duricrust
- durum wheat
- ephedra
- gerbil
- houbara
- jungle
- moloch
- oryx
- roadrunner
- sagebrush
- Sahelian
- sandgrouse
- steatopygia
- tumbleweed
- xeriscape
- zorilla
