dryland

See also: dry land

English

Etymology

From dry +‎ land.

Noun

dryland (countable and uncountable, plural drylands)

1. (often attributive) Land that is arid, but not so dry as to be a desert.
   • 1995, C. J. Pearson, D. W. Norman, J. Dixon, Sustainable Dryland Cropping in Relation to Soil Productivity‎^[1], Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization, →ISBN, page 81, UN call number FAO(05)/S6/no.72/ENG:

     Semi-arid cropping systems in India, and to a greater extent in Indo-China and east Indonesia, use dryland or upland rice when possible during the wet season.

Translations

Translations

• Spanish: secarral (es) m