单词 | rainland |
释义 | > as lemmasrainland rainland n. (esp. in sub-Saharan Africa) an area of relatively high rainfall. ΚΠ 1880 W. E. Purser & H. C. Fanshawe Rep. Land Revenue Rohtak District i. 9 In the few rain-land gardens which exist, the jáman and ber trees are found in profusion. 1903 Jrnl. Afr. Soc. 2 126 This tribe is Sedentary and famous for its crops of dhurra which are more carefully cultivated on the rain lands than anywhere else in the Sudan. 2004 D. N. Edwards Nubian Past i. 3 Some regions where the resources of river and rainland savannahs came together, were to become the focus of a long series of early states, the earliest in sub-Saharan Africa. < as lemmas |
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