| 单词 | thirst-land |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthirst-land thirst-land n. a waterless tract of country, spec. in South Africa. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > [noun] > barren land or desert > waterless droughta1000 dryheada1300 drynessa1398 carbuncle1577 jornada1828 thirst-land1878 dry land1893 thirst-country1895 thirst1906 dry1909 dust-bowl1936 1878 P. Gillmore (title) The great thirstland: a trek through Natal, Transvaal, Orange Free State and the Kalahari Desert. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 532/1 The region of extinct lakes and inland seas of Southern Nevada and South-eastern California is the great thirstland of the continent. 1895 J. G. Millais Breath from Veldt vi. 124 We entered the great forest Thirstland... In this expanse of some hundred square miles there is but one water-hole. 1908 J. Wells Stewart of Lovedale xviii. 182 Without crossing the Karoo and great Thirst-land of Unbelief. < as lemmas |
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