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"a semiarid region with little annual rainfall"adjectivesomewhat arid
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- caliche crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
- hardpan crust or layer of hard subsoil encrusted with calcium-carbonate occurring in arid or semiarid regions
- bufo microscaphus a uniformly warty stocky toad of washes and streams of semiarid southwestern United States
- cnemidophorus tigris active lizard having a network of dusky dark markings; of semiarid areas from Oregon and Idaho to Baja California
- ground snake small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America
- ground snake small shy brightly-ringed terrestrial snake of arid or semiarid areas of western North America
- lip fern any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions
- lipfern any of various terrestrial ferns of the genus Cheilanthes; cosmopolitan in arid and semiarid temperate or tropical regions
- llano estacado a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains
- mesa verde national park a national park in Colorado containing prehistoric cliff dwellings; semiarid landscape