aridification

[ uh-rid-uh-fi-key-shuhn ]

nounEcology.
  1. the long-term process by which a humid region becomes increasingly dry, chiefly as an effect of climate change and often in combination with human interference with the ecology.: Compare desertification.

Origin of aridification

1
First recorded in 1900–05; arid + -i- + -fication

Words Nearby aridification

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