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Gobi

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Go⋅bi

  [goh-bee]
–noun
a desert in E Asia, mostly in Mongolia. ab. 500,000 sq. mi. (1,295,000 sq. km).
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Chinese, Shamo.

Related forms:
Go⋅bi⋅an, adjective
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Go·bi   (gō'bē)   
A desert of southeast Mongolia and northern China. It consists mainly of a series of shallow alkaline basins.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

Gobi 
desert in central Asia, from Mongolian gobi "desert." Gobi Desert is thus a pleonasm (see Sahara).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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