FERTILE CRESCENT

Meaning of FERTILE CRESCENT in English

1. an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq.

2. an area in the Middle and Near East: formerly fertile, now partly desert.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

FERTILE CRESCENT — geographical name semicircle of fertile land stretching from SE coast of Mediterranean around Syrian Desert N of Arabia to Persian …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
FERTILE CRESCENT — Region, Middle East . The term describes a crescent-shaped area of arable land, probably more agriculturally productive in antiquity than …
Английский словарь Британика
FERTILE CRESCENT — crescent-shaped agricultural region in the Middle East stretching from the Mediterranean Sea through the Tigris-Euphrates valley to the Persian Gulf
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
FERTILE CRESCENT — semicircle of fertile land stretching from SE coast of Mediterranean around Syrian Desert N of Arabia to Persian Gulf
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FERTILE CRESCENT — Function: geographical name semicircle of fertile land stretching from SE coast of Mediterranean around Syrian Desert N of Arabia to …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
FERTILE CRESCENT — the region in the Middle East where the civilizations of the Middle East and the Mediterranean basin began. The term …
Britannica English vocabulary
FERTILE CRESCENT — ˌFertile ˈCrescent, the BrE AmE an area in the Middle East in the shape of a ↑ crescent (=a curved …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FERTILE CRESCENT — Region, Middle East . The term describes a crescent-shaped area of arable land, probably more agriculturally productive in antiquity than …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
FERTILE CRESCENT — Плодородный полумесяц
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
FERTILE — adj fertile (as in fertile soil)
Interlingua English vocab
CRESCENT — I. ˈkres ə nt sometimes ˈkrez ə nt noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English cressant, cressent, from Middle French …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FERTILE — ˈfər]d. ə l, fə̄], fəi], ]t ə l sometimes ](ˌ)til, chiefly Brit ]ˌtīl adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
FERTILE — (a.) Capable of producing fruit; fruit-bearing; as, fertile flowers.
Английский словарь Webster
FERTILE — (a.) Producing fruit or vegetation in abundance; fruitful; able to produce abundantly; prolific; fecund; productive; rich; inventive; as, fertile land …
Английский словарь Webster
CRESCENT — (a.) Shaped like a crescent.
Английский словарь Webster
CRESCENT — (n.) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.
Английский словарь Webster
CRESCENT — ( v. t. ) To form into a crescent, or something resembling a crescent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CRESCENT — ( n. ) Anything having the shape of a crescent or new moon.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
CRESCENT — ( a. ) Shaped like a crescent.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
FERTILE — — fertilely , adv. — fertileness , n. /ferr"tl/ or, esp. Brit., /-tuyl/ , adj. 1. bearing, producing, or capable …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CRESCENT — — crescentic /kri sen"tik/ , adj. /kres"euhnt/ , n. 1. a shape resembling a segment of a ring tapering to …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
CRESCENT — I. ˈkre-s ə nt noun Etymology: Middle English cressant, from Anglo-French, from present participle of crestre to grow, increase, from …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FERTILE — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from Latin fertilis, from ferre to carry, bear — …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
FERTILE — adj containing pollen; said of anthers. 2. fertile ·adj produced in abundance; plenteous; ample. 3. fertile ·adj capable of …
Webster English vocab
CRESCENT — adj increasing; growing. 2. crescent ·adj shaped like a crescent. 3. crescent ·vt to adorn with crescents. 4. crescent ·noun …
Webster English vocab
FERTILE — [fer.tile] adj [ME, fr. MF & L; MF, fr. L fertilis, fr. ferre to carry, bear--more at bear] (15c) 1 …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CRESCENT — [cres.cent] n [ME cressant, fr. MF creissant, fr. prp. of creistre to grow, increase, fr. L crescere; akin to OHG …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
CRESCENT — Arabic Hilal, political, military, and religious emblem of the Byzantine and Turkish empires and, later and more generally, of all …
Britannica English vocabulary
FERTILE — fertile BrE AmE ˈfɜːt aɪ ə l AmE \ ˈfɝːt̬ ə l (*) ▷ fertile|ly li ▷ fertile|ness nəs nɪs
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
CRESCENT — crescent BrE AmE ˈkrez ə nt ˈkres- AmE \ ˈkres- — Preference poll, British English: ˈkrez- 55%, ˈkres- 45%. See …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
FERTILE — / ˈfɜːtaɪl; NAmE ˈfɜːrtl/ adjective 1. ( of land or soil ) that plants grow well in : a fertile …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CRESCENT — / ˈkresnt; NAmE ; BrE also ˈkreznt/ noun 1. [ C ] a curved shape that is wide in the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
FERTILE — fer ‧ tile /ˈfɜːtaɪl $ ˈfɜːrtl/ BrE AmE adjective [ Date: 1400-1500 ; Language: French ; Origin: Latin ferre 'to …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
CRESCENT — cres ‧ cent /ˈkres ə nt, ˈkrez-/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; Origin: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
FERTILE — adj. 1 a (of soil) producing abundant vegetation or crops. b fruitful. 2 a (of a seed, egg, etc.) capable …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
CRESCENT — n. & adj. --n. 1 the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon. 2 anything of this shape, …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
FERTILE — adj. 1 a (of soil) producing abundant vegetation or crops. b fruitful. 2 a (of a seed, egg, etc.) capable …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
CRESCENT — n. & adj. n. 1 the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon. 2 anything of this shape, …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
FERTILE — adj.1 a (of soil) producing abundant vegetation or crops. b fruitful. 2 a (of a seed, egg, etc.) capable of …
Oxford English vocab
CRESCENT — n. & adj. --n. 1. the curved sickle shape of the waxing or waning moon. 2 anything of this shape, …
Oxford English vocab
FERTILE — 1. Land or soil that is fertile is able to support the growth of a large number of strong healthy …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CRESCENT — ( crescents) 1. A crescent is a curved shape that is wider in the middle than at its ends, like …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
CRESCENT — (~s) 1. A ~ is a curved shape that is wider in the middle than at its ends, like the …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
FERTILE — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a fertile plain ▪ The rains washed soil down to create fertile plains. a vivid/fertile …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CRESCENT — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a crescent moon (= with a thin curved shape ) ▪ The stars and thin …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
CRESCENT
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
FERTILE — adj. Function: adjective marked by abundant productivity FF1C; fertile soil FF1E; FF1C; a fertile mind FF1E; Synonyms: childing, fecund, fruitful, …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
FERTILE — adjective marked by abundant productivity fertile soil a fertile mind Synonyms: childing, fecund, fruitful, productive, proliferant, prolific, rich, spawning Related …
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
FERTILE — adj. 25B6; adjective the soil is fertile : FECUND, fruitful, productive, high-yielding, rich, lush; formal fructuous. fertile couples : ABLE …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
FERTILE — adj. fruitful, prolific, fecund, productive, bounteous, profuse, abundant, copious, fructuous, plenteous, generative, teeming, rich, luxuriant The land was fertile enough …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
CRESCENT — n. 1 demi-lune, semi-lune, lune, lunette The moon's crescent hung low in the western sky adj. 2 crescent-shaped, demi-lune, semi-lune, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
FERTILE — прил. 1) а) плодородный; изобилующий, богатый (часто fertile in, fertile of) The plains are fertile in native plants. ≈ На …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
CRESCENT — 1. сущ. 1) а) полумесяц, неполная луна, серп луны б) первая/последняя четверть луны 2) что-л. имеющее форму полумесяца, дуги 3) …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
FERTILE — fertile.ogg ʹfɜ:taıl a 1. плодородный, богатый, изобильный fertile pastures - богатые /тучные/ пастбища a race fertile in genius - народ, …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
CRESCENT — 1. ʹkres(ə)nt n 1. 1> лунный серп; полумесяц 2> первая или последняя четверть Луны, Венеры и т. п. 2. 1> …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
FERTILE — fertile прил.1) а) плодородный; изобилующий, богатый (часто fertile in, fertile of) The plains are fertile in native plants. — На …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
CRESCENT — crescent сущ.1) а) полумесяц, неполная луна, серп луны б) первая/последняя четверть луны 2) что-л. имеющее форму полумесяца, дуги 3) а) …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
FERTILE — a 1. плодородный, богатый, изобильный fertile pastures - богатые /тучные/ пастбища a race fertile in genius - народ, богатый талантами …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
CRESCENT — 1. ʹkres(ə)nt n 1. 1> лунный серп; полумесяц 2> первая или последняя четверть Луны, Венеры и т. п. 2. 1> …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
FERTILE — прил. 1) а) плодородный; изобилующий, богатый The plains are fertile in / of native plants. — На равнинах растет очень …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
CRESCENT — 1. сущ. 1) а) полумесяц, неполная луна, серп луны б) первая / последняя четверть луны 2) что-л. имеющее форму полумесяца, …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
FERTILE — прил. 1) а) плодородный; изобилующий, богатый The plains are fertile in / of native plants. — На равнинах растет очень много характерных для …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
CRESCENT — 1. сущ. 1) а) полумесяц, неполная луна, серп луны б) первая / последняя четверть луны 2) что-л. имеющее форму полумесяца, дуги 3) а) полумесяц как герб …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
CRESCENT — 1) серп, серповидное тело; серповидный, полулунный 2) растущий, возрастающий • - crescent of Gianuzzi - gray crescent - mesodermal crescent - notochordal crescent - yellow crescent
Новый Англо-Русский словарь по биологии

Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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