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NUBIAN DESERT
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)
Holonyms ("Nubian Desert" is a part of...):
Republic of the Sudan; Soudan; Sudan (a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956)
Arabian Desert; Great Arabian Desert (a desert on the Arabian Peninsula in southwestern Asia)