Here is Websters definition of a desert:
a :
arid land with usually
sparse vegetation; especially : such land having a very warm climate and receiving less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of
sporadic rainfall annually
: an area of water apparently
devoid of life
2: a
desolate or forbidding area
- lost in a desert of doubt
: a wild uninhabited and uncultivated tract
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