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Noun: Fertile Crescent
  1. A geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

Type of: geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region

Part of: Middle East, Mideast, Near East

Encyclopedia: Fertile Crescent

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