7.(Railways)USandCanadiana railway locomotive in motion without drawing any carriages or wagons. Also called (in Britain and certain other countries):light engine 8.(Commerce) (modifier) a.of or relating to an unsound business enterprise:wildcat stock. ...
desert iguana- small long-tailed lizard of arid areas of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico Dipsosaurus dorsalis iguanid,iguanid lizard- lizards of the New World and Madagascar and some Pacific islands; typically having a long tail and bright throat patch in males ...
northern plateau region of Mexico and the adjacent portions of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico have less extreme desert conditions with a quite abundant growth of mesquite, greasewood, creosote bush, yucca, and various species ofcactus. Middle-latitude deserts are found in parts of the Great ...
desert pavementDesert pavement in the Mojave Desert, southeastern California. The peculiar climaticenvironmentof deserts has favoured the development of certain characteristic landforms. Stony plains calledregsorgibberplains are widespread, their surface covered bydesert pavementconsisting of coarse gravel and ...
New Mexico's Highway 152 begins at Interstate Highway 25 some 51 miles north of Las Cruces, immediately west of the desert lake called Caballo Reservoir.
temperatures during the long summer and because the evolutionary affinities of their plant life are largely with the subtropical plant communities to the south. The Great Basin Desert is called a "cold desert" because it is generally cooler and its dominant plant life is not subtropical in origin...
Saguaros (suh-wah-ros) are found exclusively in the Sonoran Desert and are very slow growing. 2 Prickly subject Excavations at a site called El Fin del Mundo, or the End of the World, in Mexico's Sonoran Desert indicate that Clovis folks camped there around 13,390 years ago, making the...
Northern New Mexico Arizona + Arizona Southern Arizona Northern Arizona Eastern Arizona Western ArizonaSpring on the Bluff Spring 2025 We spent much of January working on our "defensible space", but still enjoyed some spectacular hikes in Lower Gila Box. When the trail ended, we continued side...
in the southeast with theSonoran Desert, which covers much of Baja California and runs along theGulf of Californiacoast to the Mexican state of Sonora. Its subdivisions include the Yuma and Colorado deserts. To the east lies the hugeChihuahuan Desert, extending from southern New Mexico (where ...
Some deserts get both very hot (during the day) and very cold (during the night, when temperatures can drop well below freezing). Some deserts, however, are always cold (for example, the Gobi Desert in Asia, and the desert on the continent of Antarctica). ...