"dryland" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: drylands [plural]
Etymology: From dry + land. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|dry|land}} dry + land Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dryland (countable and uncountable, plural drylands)
  1. (often attributive) Land that is arid, but not so dry as to be a desert. Tags: attributive, countable, often, uncountable Translations (Translations): secarral [masculine] (Spanish)

Inflected forms

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