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Go·bi

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

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Go·bi·an, adjective
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Gobi (ˈɡəʊbɪ)
 
—n
Chinese name: Shamo a desert in E Asia, mostly in Mongolia and the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China: sometimes considered to include all the arid regions east of the Pamirs and north of the plateau of Tibet and the Great Wall of China: one of the largest deserts in the world. Length: about 1600 km (1000 miles). Width: about 1000 km (625 miles). Average height: 900 m (3000 ft)

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Gobi
desert in central Asia, from Mongolian gobi "desert." Gobi Desert is thus a pleonasm (see Sahara).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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