trade-wind desert

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trade-wind desert [′trād ¦wind ‚dez·ərt]

(climatology)

An area of very little rainfall and high temperature which occurs where the trade winds or their equivalent (such as the harmattan) blow over land; the best examples are the Sahara and Kalahari deserts.

The arid cold-water coasts on the western shores of North and South America and Africa.

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