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dust bowl
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dust bowl
n.
A region reduced to aridity by drought and dust storms.
[After the Dust Bowl, region in the south-central US that was stricken with drought in the 1930s.]
dust bowl
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a semiarid area in which the surface soil is exposed to wind erosion and dust storms occur
Dust Bowl
n
(Placename) the. the area of the south central US that became denuded of topsoil by wind erosion during the droughts of the mid-1930s
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Noun1.dust bowl - a region subject to dust stormsdust bowl - a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s
geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region - a demarcated area of the Earth
Great Plains, Great Plains of North America - a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans
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