arid

The design of the novel type of smart crystals, which the researchers named Janus crystals, is inspired by desert plants and animals, which can survive in arid conditions.

Their analyses revealed a variety of living and possibly active microbes in the most arid areas.

Think about how vulnerable those hundreds of thousands of displaced children are in Lebanon, one of the most arid countries in the world.

They would wait under the tree on a late September day until a smuggler led them to a gap in the wall, where 70 miles of arid terrain stretched between them and Tucson.

All sorts of pines, shrubs and so much more in a region usually thought of as arid.