ALL meanings of fertile crescent
fer·tile cres·cent
F f - noun fertile crescent an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq. 1
- noun fertile crescent an area in the Middle and Near East: formerly fertile, now partly desert. 1
- noun fertile crescent an area of fertile land in the Middle East, extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates in a semicircle from Israel to the Persian Gulf, where the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Phoenician, and Hebrew civilizations flourished 0
- noun fertile crescent historical crescent-shaped region in the Middle East, extending from the E end of the Mediterranean Sea to the Tigris & Euphrates rivers: significant as the birthplace of several ancient civilizations 0