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Webster 1913 Edition

(ō′ȧ-sĭs or ō̍-ā′sĭs; 277)

Noun.

;

pl.

Oases

(-sēz)

[L., fr. Gr.

ὄασις

; cf. Copt.

ouahe

A fertile or green spot in a waste or desert, esp. in a sandy desert, where the water table approaches the surface.

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“The Arab does not love the desert; the Arab loves the

oasis

and green fields.”

My one

oasis

in the dust and drouth
Of city life.

Tennyson.

See also: oasis, Oasis, OASIS, and Ὄασις

oásis

oásis m (plural oásis)