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Aridoamerica

name

Etymology

From arid + -o- + America. Coined by Gary Paul Nabhan in 1985.

  1. derived from Mouric
  2. learned borrowing from America
  3. formed as aridoamerica — “arid + -o- + America”

Definitions

  1. An ethno-ecological region of Southwestern North America, from the Pacific coast to the…

    An ethno-ecological region of Southwestern North America, from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico coast, extending across northern Mexico (including the Baja Peninsula, and spanning from the Gulf of California to the Gulf of Mexico) and the U.S. desert southwest (from California to Texas). It is defined by the use of staple bean Phaseolus acutifolius.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA