semidesert
- n a region much like a desert but usually located between a desert and the surrounding regions
- The plains around Arbil--once a glaring semidesert wasteland--are exploding with luxury housing developments.
- Then, in 1996, Uys took over a derelict railway station in Darling, a semidesert town an hour's drive north of Cape Town, and turned it into a cabaret called Evita Se Perron.
- But what can preppies bring to the semidesert kingdom? Some of the evidence is already on display at the campus, near Madaba, a farming town about 30 miles (48 km) south of Amman .