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aridification
[ uh-rid-uh-fi-key-shuhn ]
noun
, Ecology.
- the long-term process by which a humid region becomes increasingly dry, chiefly as an effect of climate change and often in combination with human interference with the ecology. Compare desertification ( ).
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