2. Noun. a stony desert ¹
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Definition of Hammada
1. a desert plateau of bedrock [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hammada
Literary usage of Hammada
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1851)
"... a Wadi with a famous cavern called Aa'gidet en Nib, where you arrive at the
Aser, proceeding always on the hammada. 16th. ..."
2. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1907)
"The Inland Plateaux and Ranges: The Great hammada Beyond the ... on the northern
verge of the great stony hammada. The term " hammada," meaning a stony ..."
3. Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1865)
"I was thus enabled to travel through the hammada (which separates the 1'Ued Gehr
from ... in the middle of the hammada, there is an interesting place called ..."
4. Africa by Augustus Henry Keane (1907)
"Two distinct routes, however, lead from Tripolis across the hammada to Fezzan.
... The hammada is skirted southwards by the Jebel es- Suda (" Black ..."
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