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arid
What does arid mean?
arid (adjective): lacking sufficient water or rainfall.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use arid in a sentence?
- An arid climate. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
Where does arid come from?
From French aride or directly from Latin āridus (“dry, arid, parched”), compare its synonymous contracted form ardus.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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