La Palabra Del Día "desértico"
desértico ( deh-SEHR-tee-koh )
(adjective) desert; barren; deserted
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Examples:
1: Me gustan mucho los colores desérticos, como el color teja y el color siena tostada.
I really like desert colors, such as burnt sienna and rust.
2: Las tierras desérticas se extendían por millas.
The barren lands stretched on for miles.
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Hace años visité Calico Ghost Town, que está situado en el pequeño pueblo de Yermo, California. Yermo significa "desértico" lo que significa "abandonado" o desierto, o despoblado. Y es verdad, no podía conseguir ninguna foto de Yermo, pero obtener varias fotos del Calico Ghost town fue muy fácil.
A few years ago I visited Calico Ghost Town, that is located in the small town of Yermo California. "Yermo" means "abandoned" or "desolate" or un populated. And it is true. I could not get any photos of Yermo, but obtaining some photos of Calico Ghost Town was easy.
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He encontrado algunas fotos of Yermo. La primera es el primer sitio del primer Restaurante "Del Taco" en Los EEUU. La segunda muestra algo del centro.
Un jardín desértico puede ser muy bello, pero es cierto que allí solo las plantas especiales pueden sobrevivir.
A desert garden can be very beautiful, but it is true that only special plants can survive there.
Los lagartos que viven el lugares desérticos usarán trucos inteligentes para evitar que sus pies sean quemados.
Lizards that live in the desert will use clever tricks to keep their feet from being burned.
La nave fantasma desértica parecía apareció ominosamente en el horizonte.
The deserted ghost ship appeared ominously on the horizon.
After the war the land was deserted. Leaving nothing but human remains and the lingering scent of smoke and decay to haunt it's wretched lands.
Después de la guerra la tierra estaba désertico. Dejando nada sino restos humanos y el persistente aroma de humo y decaimiento a rondar las tierras desdichadas
Puede ser bueno visitar Disneyland en un día llovioso, porque puede ser casi desértico.
It can be good to visit Disneyland on a rainy day, because it can be practically deserted.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/dustysage/Weekend Update 2009/012310/MacDaddy2/108-3.jpg
El hombre se llama Israel Hands que fue abandonado en una isla desiéricto tuve la última risa, porque encontró un cofre de tesora.
The man named Israel Hands who was abandoned on a deserted island had the last laugh, because he found a treasure chest.
Aunque los que sabemos qué es un camaleón de verdad normalmente pensamos que es un animal que vive en un selva tropical, hay una especie que puede sobrevivir en un clima desértico, incluso uno muy árido.
Although those of us that truly know what a chameleon really is normally think that it is an animal that lives in a tropical forest, there is a species that can survive in a desert climate, including a very arid one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfC9tLcbPnI
El recinto universitario de la Universidad Northwestern será desértico como todos pegará a sus televisiones cuando el equipo juega juege juegue en el torneo final de baloncesto de la NCAA hombres por primera vez.
The Northwestern University campus will be deserted as everyone will be glued to their televisions when the team plays in the men's NCAA basketball tournament for the first time ever.
Thanks, Ken & Dani, for corrections 
Desertado el pueblo, iba convirtiéndose en un verdadero pueblo fantasma.
Now that the village was deserted, it was gradually becoming a true ghost town.
With this Spanish sentence I'm trying out some grammar that I've been studying. Could the Spanish experts here let me know if this sentence is OK? If it is...is it the kind of thing you might read in a newspaper or magazine or is it quite "literary." The grammar elements I'm speaking of are starting a sentence with a past participle and the use of "ir" in the imperfect with the gerundio to mean that something was occurring little by little or gradually in the past.
Durante el "Dust Bowl", miles abandonaron la tierra desértica.
During the Dust Bowl, thousands abandoned the barren land.
Puede ser bueno ir al Disneyland en un día llovioso, porque puede estar casi desértico.
It can be good to go to Disneyland on a rainy day, because it can be almost deserted.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v647/dustysage/Weekend Update 2009/012310/MacDaddy2/109-3.jpg
Ahora la superficie de Marte es muy desértica, aunque hay evidencia de aqua en su historia.
Now the surface of Mars is very desert-like, although there is evidence of water in its history.
Mars once had a strong magnetic field—like Earth does now—produced by a dynamo effect from its interior heat. But as the smaller planet cooled, Mars lost its magnetic field some time around 4.2 billion years ago, scientists say. During the next several hundred million years, the Sun’s powerful solar wind stripped particles away from the unprotected Martian atmosphere at a rate 100 to 1,000 times greater than that of today.
