Assertion: desert | /r/HasProperty | arid
Facets:
value: extremely
type: DEGREE
value: in other words
type: OTHER
value: with sturt’s stony desert
type: OTHER
value: on a chart
type: LOCATION
value: to support vegetation
type: PURPOSE
value: simply
type: OTHER
value: with very little rainfall
type: OTHER
value: especially
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: A desert is an arid (very dry) biome.
text: A desert is simply an arid land (too dry or barren to support vegetation) with very little rainfall.
text: Deserts are arid regions, generally receiving less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year, or regions where the potential evaporation rate is significantly greater than the precipitation.
text: Deserts (especially true deserts) are not easy places for animals to live.
text: A desert is an arid land area that generally receives less than 10 inches (250 millimeters) of rainfall per year.
text: The desert was noted by the explorer Charles Sturt in 1845 and was called (together with Sturt’s Stony Desert) the Arunta Desert on a chart prepared by T. Griffith Taylor in 1926.
text: One thing all deserts have in common is that they are arid, or dry.
text: In other words, a desert is arid.
text: Deserts of this sort are subject to frequent fog and low-level clouds; yet they are extremely arid.