Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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Fertile Crescent | Yes | No | No | No |
Mideast | Yes | No | No | No |
Fertile Crescent (noun) | Mideast (noun) |
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a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates | the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century |