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alluvial soil |
alluvial soil - a fine-grained fertile soil deposited by water flowing over flood plains or in river beds. alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvium, alluvion - clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down.
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wadi |
(in certain Arabic-speaking countries) a valley, ravine, or channel that is dry except in the rainy season.
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phosphate |
In organic chemistry, a phosphate
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nomad |
A nomad (Greek: νομάς, nomas, plural νομάδες, nomades; meaning one roaming about for pasture, pastoral tribe) is a member of a community of people who live in different locations, moving from one place to another.
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nationalist |
a person who advocates political independence for a country.
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domesticate |
tame (an animal) and keep it as a pet or for farm produce.
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bedouin |
a nomadic Arab of the desert.
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hieroglyphic
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It combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts are derived fromhieroglyphic writing; Meroitic was a late derivation from Demotic.
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geometric boundary |
A geometric boundary, or geometric border, is one that is formed by arcs or straight lines irrespective of the physical and cultural features of the land it passes through. Examples include the U.S.-Canada border and the borders of some African states that evolved from colonial holdings.
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aqufier
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aq·ui·ferˈäkwəfər,ˈakwəfər/nouna body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.
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