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DUST BOWL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("dust bowl" is a kind of...):
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Holonyms ("dust bowl" is a part of...):
Great Plains; Great Plains of North America (a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans)
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