arid

Relative amounts of different carbon and nitrogen isotopes depend on whether an elephant spent most of its time in, say, a rainforest or an arid grassland.

Some parts were arid, nearly barren, others green and fertile.

His papers are voluminous but arid, nothing of the man comes through.

Anguilla is an arid, flat Caribbean island surrounded on all sides by seawater.

The Republican gathering in Tampa was like a business meeting—for the most part, emotionally and rhetorically arid.

Media people, always on perpetual deadline, can adapt even to the most arid surroundings.

Death, to do him justice, he had met with none of the cowardice he had vaunted, and consistently with his arid cynical soul.

The broad river was left behind; they set their course toward the arid mountains of Libya.

“Guayule” is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico.

The interior plateau may be described as arid, so that irrigation is required if crops are to be raised.

A great part of this region is an arid and frightful desert; but the more favored portions are extremely fertile.