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n. land that is arid, but not so dry as to be a desert.

"It's this type of use, or misuse, of water for high-altitude crops, and ones with only an indirect return, getting processed through a cow (or worse, fed to somebody's pet horse), rather than direct human benefit crops such as dryland or semi-dry spring wheat or pinto beans, that Marc Reisner decried in "Cadillac Desert.""

smallhold    thermooxidative    never-before-played    wind-bent    thanar