atacama desert

1. 1.

   a desert in western Chile that extends roughly 600 miles south from the Peruvian border; one of the driest areas in the world, but rich in nitrate and copper deposits

   Broaderdesert

   Part ofChile

Questions about atacama desert

What does atacama desert mean?

atacama desert means "a desert in western Chile that extends roughly 600 miles south from the Peruvian border; one of the driest areas in the world, but rich in nitrate and copper deposits".

Is atacama desert a common word?

atacama desert is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.