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dry land
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Noun dry land has 1 sense
- dry land(n = noun.object) earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma - the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" is a kind of object, physical object
has particulars: archipelago, beachfront, cape, ness, coastal plain, floor, foreland, forest, timber, timberland, woodland, island, isthmus, land mass, landmass, mainland, neck, oxbow, peninsula, champaign, field, plain, slash, wonderland
is a part of earth, globe, world
THESAURUS
dry land
acres, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, clay, clod, crust, dirt, dust, earth, freehold, glebe, grassland, ground, land, landholdings, lithosphere, marginal land, marl, mold, real estate, real property, region, regolith, sod, soil, subaerial deposit, subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, topsoil, woodlandROGET THESAURUS
dry land
Land
N land, earth, ground, dry land, terra firma, continent, mainland, peninsula, chersonese, delta, tongue of land, neck of land, isthmus, oasis, promontory, highland, coast, shore, scar, strand, beach, playa, bank, lea, seaboard, seaside, seabank, seacoast, seabeach, ironbound coast, loom of the land, derelict, innings, alluvium, alluvion, ancon, riverbank, river bank, levee, soil, glebe, clay, loam, marl, cledge, chalk, gravel, mold, subsoil, clod, clot, rock, crag, acres, real estate, landsman, earthy, continental, midland, coastal, littoral, riparian, alluvial, terrene, landed, predial, territorial, geophilous, ripicolous, ashore, on shore, on land.
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