fertile crescent

1. 1.

   a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates

   Broadergeographical area

   Part ofMiddle East

Questions about fertile crescent

What does fertile crescent mean?

fertile crescent means "a geographical area of fertile land in the Middle East stretching in a broad semicircle from the Nile to the Tigris and Euphrates".

Is fertile crescent a common word?

fertile crescent 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.