Nefud Desert

[ nuh-food dez-ert ]

noun

1. a desert in northern Saudi Arabia: areas of reddish sand. About 50,000 sq. mi. (129,500 sq. km).

Example Sentences

Eight years ago, one ancient multihued lake in the Nefud Desert caught the eye of researchers.

From Science Magazine

Eight years ago, one ancient multihued lake in the Nefud Desert caught the eye of researchers.

From Science Magazine

One day about 120,000 years ago, a few humans wandered along the shore of an ancient lake in what is now the Nefud desert in Saudi Arabia.

From Science Magazine

A few years ago he and his colleagues recovered fossils of several extinct Arabian mammals from a site in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud Desert.

From New York Times

In 2016 their colleague Iyad Zalmout, an archaeologist with the Saudi Geological Survey and author on the paper, was prospecting in a site called Al Wusta in the Nefud Desert in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula.

From New York Times