Definition of Australian desert

1. Noun. General name given to all desert areas in Australia.

Exact synonyms: Great Australian Desert
Terms within: Outback, Never-never, Gibson Desert, Great Sandy Desert, Great Victoria Desert
Generic synonyms: Desert
Group relationships: Australia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Australian Desert

Australasia
Australasian
Australasian pig-nose turtle
Australasian pig-nose turtles
Australia
Australia Day
Australia Felix
Australia antigen
Australian
Australian Aboriginal
Australian Aborigine
Australian Alps
Australian Capital Territory
Australian Cattle Dog
Australian Cattle Dogs
Australian Desert
Australian Eastern Standard Time
Australian English
Australian Mist
Australian Mists
Australian Q fever
Australian Shepherd
Australian Shepherds
Australian Sign Language
Australian X disease
Australian X disease virus
Australian X encephalitis
Australian ballot
Australian ballots
Australian blacksnake

Literary usage of Australian desert

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Achievement edited by Edward Everett Hale (1902)
"OCEANIA The australian desert By PETER EGERTON WARBURTON WE are to commence our flight to the Oakover at sunset. God grant us strength to get through ! ..."

2. The Explorers of Australia and Their Life-work by Ernest Favenc (1908)
"As it now contained plenty of A Camel Caravan in an australian desert. water for their wants, and there was good feed all around, they rested by it until ..."

3. Australasia by Alfred Russel Wallace, Francis Henry Hill Guillemard (1893)
"... had thus successfully twice crossed the australian desert from east to west and from west to east, the two lines being from 300 to 400 miles apart, ..."

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