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单词 drylands
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Definition of drylands in English:

drylands

plural nounˈdrʌɪləndzˈdrīˌlandz
North American
  • An arid area; a region with low rainfall.

    farmers in the drylands who depend on crops such as millet will need seeds that can thrive in a harsher climate
    dryland agriculture
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Large-scale landslides (specifically flowslides) and mass flowage of loess are frequently triggered by heavy, seasonal rainstorms (including the summer monsoonal rains) in the drylands of Asia and elsewhere.
    • Most of Africa's drylands lack basic infrastructure, such as electricity and appropriate facilities for communication.
    • The Cordaitales, an extinct order of plants closely related to the conifers, occupied a wide range of environments during Pennsylvanian times including wetlands, drylands, and uplands.
    • There must be a special focus on farming in drylands and unirrigated areas.
    • Yet their touchstone remains the drylands of Texas and Arizona.
    • Bill, a contractor who grew up in nearby Huntington Beach, brags about the pre-eminence of BMX here in the drylands of Riverside County.
    • Some of those drylands, like the Atacama of Chile, the Namib and Kalahari deserts of southern Africa, and the western Australian desert, are the result of cold oceanic currents that divert rain-laden air away from coastlines.
    • This group, which included scrambling shrubs to giant forest trees, flourished in wetlands, drylands, and uplands across the Pennsylvanian tropical zone.
    • Consequently, most of our knowledge of Tournaisian tropical vegetation is centred on the drylands.
    • Kangaroo rats were first seen in the Pliocene, at a time when the drylands occupied by the majority of modern species were widespread in North America.
    • Even when it comes to irrigation and water conservation, agricultural scientists have ignored the time-tested systems prevalent in the harsh drylands and have instead tried to impose alien technologies.
    • His eyes were distant as he remembered the African drylands.
 
 

Definition of drylands in US English:

drylands

plural nounˈdrīˌlandz
North American
  • An arid area; a region with low rainfall.

    farmers in the drylands who depend on crops such as millet will need seeds that can thrive in a harsher climate
    dryland agriculture
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Kangaroo rats were first seen in the Pliocene, at a time when the drylands occupied by the majority of modern species were widespread in North America.
    • Yet their touchstone remains the drylands of Texas and Arizona.
    • Bill, a contractor who grew up in nearby Huntington Beach, brags about the pre-eminence of BMX here in the drylands of Riverside County.
    • Large-scale landslides (specifically flowslides) and mass flowage of loess are frequently triggered by heavy, seasonal rainstorms (including the summer monsoonal rains) in the drylands of Asia and elsewhere.
    • Even when it comes to irrigation and water conservation, agricultural scientists have ignored the time-tested systems prevalent in the harsh drylands and have instead tried to impose alien technologies.
    • The Cordaitales, an extinct order of plants closely related to the conifers, occupied a wide range of environments during Pennsylvanian times including wetlands, drylands, and uplands.
    • His eyes were distant as he remembered the African drylands.
    • This group, which included scrambling shrubs to giant forest trees, flourished in wetlands, drylands, and uplands across the Pennsylvanian tropical zone.
    • There must be a special focus on farming in drylands and unirrigated areas.
    • Consequently, most of our knowledge of Tournaisian tropical vegetation is centred on the drylands.
    • Most of Africa's drylands lack basic infrastructure, such as electricity and appropriate facilities for communication.
    • Some of those drylands, like the Atacama of Chile, the Namib and Kalahari deserts of southern Africa, and the western Australian desert, are the result of cold oceanic currents that divert rain-laden air away from coastlines.
 
 
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