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proper nounthe Taklamakan Desert
- Synonym of Taklamakan: A cold desert in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China, the largest desert entirely contained in China.
The terrible Taklamakan desert, too, in which Hedin nearly died of thirst, was once the bed of just such a lake.
1908 November 13, “Salt Lakes.”, in Woburn Journal, volume LVIII, number 52, Woburn, Mass., →OCLC, page 1, column 6Synonyms: Taklamakan
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proper nounSynonym of Taklamakan: A cold desert in the Xinjiang autonomous region, China, the largest desert entirely contained in China.
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