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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 bowldust 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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Dust storms in Asia and Africa deposit millions of tons of topsoil on distant regions, transforming valuable rangeland and cropland into dust bowls.
Outgrowing the Earth by Huebner, Al / The Humanist
But this crash hasn't sent masses of destitute people out of dust bowls and onto the streets, or caused great migrations of unemployed workers.
No pity for media 'victims' of stock crash. (Commentary) by Lewis, Michael / Los Angeles Business Journal
Aerial photos sometimes make camps look like desolate dust bowls.
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