- Fertile Crescent
- geographical name semicircle of fertile land stretching from SE coast of Mediterranean around Syrian Desert N of Arabia to Persian Gulf
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
Fertile Crescent
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Fertile Crescent — Fertile Cres|cent the Fertile Crescent an area in the ↑Middle East in the shape of a ↑crescent (=a curved shape) from Israel to the ↑Gulf, including the land around the rivers ↑Tigris and ↑Euphrates. Several important ancient ↑civilizations had… … Dictionary of contemporary English
Fertile Crescent — historical crescent shaped region in the Middle East, extending from the E end of the Mediterranean Sea to the Tigris & Euphrates rivers: significant as the birthplace of several ancient civilizations … English World dictionary
Fertile Crescent — The Fertile Crescent is a crescent shaped region in the Middle East, originally incorporating the Levant and Ancient Mesopotamia, and often extended to Ancient Egypt. The region is sometimes referred to as the Cradle of Civilization. The term… … Wikipedia
Fertile Crescent — 1. an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq. 2. an area in the Middle and Near East: formerly fertile, now partly desert. * * * Region, Middle East. The term describes a crescent shaped area of arable land, probably more… … Universalium
Fertile Crescent — The earliest inhabited zone of the Near East often referred to as the Cradle of Civilization in which agriculture and the ancestors of the Mesopotamian peoples first developed. The term Fertile Crescent was coined in the early twentieth… … Ancient Mesopotamia dictioary
Fertile Crescent — crescent shaped agricultural region in the Middle East stretching from the Mediterranean Sea through the Tigris Euphrates valley to the Persian Gulf … English contemporary dictionary
Fertile Crescent Plan — The Fertile Crescent Plan was an Iraqi Hashemite proposal for the union of Iraq with Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Transjordan. Nuri as Said, prime minister of Iraq, presented the plan to British officials during World War II, when it appeared… … Wikipedia
Fertile Crescent — noun /ˈfɜːtaɪl ˈkrɛsənt,ˈfɝːtəl ˈkrɛsənt/ (Ancient History) A crescent shaped strip of fertile land stretching from present day Iraq through eastern Turkey and down the Syrian and Israeli coasts … Wiktionary
Fertile Crescent — Fer′tile Cres′cent n. geg a crescent shaped agricultural region of the ancient Near East beginning at the Mediterranean Sea and extending between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf … From formal English to slang
Fertile Crescent — /fɜtaɪl ˈkrɛzənt/ (say fertuyl krezuhnt) noun 1. an arc shaped region favourable for agriculture extending from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. 2. an area in western Asia, once fertile but now partly desert, in which it is believed that… …
