dust bowl

English Thesaurus

1. a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s (noun.location)

hypernym	:	geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region,
definition	:	a demarcated area of the Earth (noun.location)

part meronym	:	great plains, great plains of north america,
definition	:	a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans (noun.object)