Definition of Sonoran in English:
Sonoran
adjective səˈnɔːrənsəˈnôrən
Relating to, denoting, or characteristic of a biogeographical region including desert areas of the south-western US and central Mexico.
Example sentencesExamples
- We want to make sure that our children do not have to go to a preserve to witness the joy of the unique and fragile Sonoran desert.
- The landscape in question is not Central Australia but the Sonoran Desert in Southern Arizona, USA.
- However, the Sonoran region is characterized by great variability in annual precipitation, which is one of the most important factors affecting quail populations.
- I use Sonoran desert native plants: juniper berries, pinon gum, brittlebush gum (a yellow-flowered medicinal shrub that is sometimes used as incense in Mexican churches), and osha root.
- His grandfather had fled the shackles of peonage in the 1880s and homesteaded this tract of Sonoran desert.
Origin
Late 19th century: from Sonora + -an.