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English → English (gcide) Definition: Desert flora Desert \Des"ert\, a. [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F. d['e]sert. See 2d Desert.] Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island. [1913 Webster] He . . . went aside privately into a desert place. --Luke ix. 10. [1913 Webster] Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray. [1913 Webster] Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place. Desert hare (Zo["o]l.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var. Arizon[ae]) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States. Desert mouse (Zo["o]l.), an American mouse (Hesperomys eremicus ), living in the Western deserts. [1913 Webster]