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Saharan

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Sa·har·a  (s-hâr, -hr, -här)
A vast desert of northern Africa extending east from the Atlantic coast to the Nile Valley and south from the Atlas Mountains to the region of the Sudan. During the Ice Age (about 50,000 to 100,000 years ago), the Sahara was a region of extensive shallow lakes watering large areas of vegetation, most of which had disappeared by Roman times. Introduction of the camel (probably in the first century a.d.) led to occupation by nomadic tribes who moved from oasis to oasis in search of water.
Sa·haran adj. & n.
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Noun1.SaharanSaharan - a Nilo-Saharan language spoken in parts of Chad
Nilo-Saharan, Nilo-Saharan language - a family of East African languages spoken by Nilotic peoples from the Sahara south to Kenya and Tanzania
Adj.1.Saharan - of or relating to or located in the Sahara Desert
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