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trade-wind desert trade-wind desert[′trād ¦wind ‚dez·ərt] (climatology) An area of very little rainfall and high temperature which occurs where the trade winds or their equivalent (such as the harmattan) blow over land; the best examples are the Sahara and Kalahari deserts. The arid cold-water coasts on the western shores of North and South America and Africa. |