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Desert rain frog
Desert rain frog (Breviceps macrops), also web-footed rain frog or Melkpadda, a small burrowing Brevicipitidae frog of fog-covered coastal dunes from Kleinsee, South Africa to Lüderitz, Namibia; IUCN Vulnerable since 2026, threatened by diamond strip mining and coastal development.
Desert RATS
Desert RATS, short for Desert Research and Technology Studies (D-RATS), is a NASA field-test program that exercises prototype rovers, spacesuits, and operations in Arizona's high desert.
Desert Road (New Zealand)
The Desert Road is a 46-kilometer stretch of State Highway 1 in New Zealand's North Island, crossing the Rangipo Desert east of Mount Ruapehu between Waiōuru and Tūrangi.
Desert Rose (Sting song)
Desert Rose (Sting song), from Brand New Day (1999), a duet with Algerian raï singer Cheb Mami blending Arabic and Western pop; single January 17, 2000, US Billboard Hot 100 peak 17, Jaguar commercial tie-in.
Desert Tech WLVRN
The Desert Tech WLVRN, pronounced "Wolverine," is a semi-automatic, multi-caliber bullpup rifle by Desert Tech of Utah, introduced at SHOT Show 2024 as successor to the MDRX.
Desert tortoise
Desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii, also G. morafkai and G. evgoodei), Agassiz's desert tortoise, a burrowing tortoise of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts; largest U.S. terrestrial turtle, ESA-threatened, IUCN Critically Endangered.
Desert Warrior (2025 film)
Desert Warrior (2025) is a Rupert Wyatt historical action epic set in 7th-century Arabia, starring Anthony Mackie, Aiysha Hart, and Ben Kingsley. Shot in NEOM on a $150 million Saudi MBC budget, it premiered at Zurich 2025, earned 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, and grossed under $800,000 worldwide.
Desert Wolves
Desert Wolves, or Lobos del Desierto, names several units: an Iraqi border-enforcement battalion in al-Anbar during Operation Iraqi Freedom, the 172nd Stryker Brigade's nickname, and a Colombian mercenary brigade of 350-380 ex-soldiers fighting for Sudan's RSF via UAE contractor GSSG.
Deserted medieval village
Deserted medieval village (DMV): remains of an abandoned nucleated rural settlement, over 2,000 known in England. Mainly deserted in the 14th-15th centuries through enclosure and sheep farming, not the Black Death; type site Wharram Percy.
Desertification
Desertification, or desertization, is land degradation in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas driven by climate change and human activities like overgrazing and deforestation, formalized in the 1994 UNCCD.
Desertification in the Sahel
Desertification in the Sahel is land degradation in the semi-arid belt south of the Sahara, the world's emblematic desertification case after the droughts and famines of the 1970s and 1980s.
Desertion
Desertion is leaving armed forces without permission, with legal senses covering willful abandonment of spouse or child; US UCMJ Article 85 punishes wartime desertion by death, and over 100,000 Ukrainian soldiers were charged since 2022.
Deserts of Australia
The deserts of Australia, also called the Great Australian desert, form a largely contiguous arid region across the western and central interior, covering about 1,371,000 square kilometers.
Desertum
Desertum is a genus of small alligator lizards (Anguidae, Gerrhonotinae) erected in 2022, containing Desertum lugoi and D. lazcanoi, endemic to rocky arid shrubland of Coahuila and Nuevo León, Mexico, above 730 m, distinguished by smooth dorsal scales.
Deseterac
Deseterac (десетерац) is a ten-syllable verse line, the principal meter of Serbian and Croatian oral epic poetry, sung with the gusle and first recorded in 1556.
Desflurane
Desflurane: highly fluorinated volatile inhalational anesthetic synthesized by Terrell (compound 653, 1959–1966), introduced 1992; low blood solubility, high vapor pressure needing heated vaporizers, airway irritant, and GWP100 of 2540, now being eliminated worldwide.
Desh Bandhu Gupta
Desh Bandhu Gupta (देश बंधु गुप्ता) was an Indian pharmaceutical entrepreneur who founded Lupin in Mumbai in 1968, building it into one of the world's largest generic drug makers.
Desh Pal S. Verma
Desh Pal S. Verma was a Canadian-American plant molecular biologist and Ohio State professor who isolated the first plant mRNA and identified nodulins, dying in 2025.
Deshao
Deshao (德韶, 891–972) was a Chinese Chan monk of the Fayan school, its second patriarch, who served as National Teacher to the kings of Wuyue.
Deshastha Brahmin
Deshastha Brahmin (देशस्थ ब्राह्मण): a Marathi Brahmin sub-caste of the Deccan plateau, Maharashtra's largest and oldest Brahmin community, split into Rigvedi and Yajurvedi branches, traditionally priests, with gotras such as Kashyap and Bharadwaj.
Deshaun Watson
Deshaun Watson, born 1995, NFL quarterback for the Cleveland Browns, formerly Houston Texans and Clemson. Known for the 2020 passing-yards title, the 2022 trade for three first-round picks, and the fully guaranteed $230 million contract.
Deshaun Watson trade
Deshaun Watson trade: March 18, 2022 NFL deal sending the quarterback from the Houston Texans to the Cleveland Browns for three first-round picks, a third, and two fourths, plus a record $230 million fully guaranteed contract.
DeShawn Stevenson
DeShawn Stevenson (born 1981) is an American former NBA shooting guard, drafted 23rd in 2000 by Utah straight from high school, known as a defensive stopper and 2011 NBA champion with the Dallas Mavericks.
Deshayesites
Deshayesites is an extinct lower Aptian (Early Cretaceous) ammonite genus of the family Deshayesitidae, type species D. deshayesi (d'Orbigny, 1841); its first appearance marks the Aptian base in the Tethyan realm and its zones define lower Aptian biostratigraphy.
Deshdrohi (देशद्रोही)
Deshdrohi (देशद्रोही), also Desh Drohi, is a 2008 Hindi action thriller produced, written by, and starring Kamaal R. Khan, directed by Jagdish Sharma, banned in Maharashtra, a box-office disaster with a 1.2/10 IMDb rating.
Deshmukh and Deshpande
Deshmukh and Deshpande (देशमुख आणि देशपांडे) were paired hereditary offices of the medieval Deccan: the deshmukh was a pargana's revenue chief, the deshpande its record-keeper.
DeShone Kizer
DeShone Kizer, former Notre Dame and NFL quarterback; Browns' 2017 second-round pick (52nd overall) who started 0-15 as a rookie with 22 interceptions, later with Green Bay, Oakland/Las Vegas, and Tennessee.
Deshret
Deshret, the Red Crown of ancient Egypt, symbolized rule over Lower Egypt; combined with the white hedjet it formed the pschent double crown, linked to Wadjet and Neith.
Desi
Desi (Hindi/Urdu desī, from Sanskrit deśa, country) is a colloquial term for people, cultures, and products of the Indian subcontinent, especially South Asians abroad; recorded in English since 1880, diaspora noun sense since the late twentieth century.
Desi Arnaz
Desi Arnaz (1917–1986), Cuban-born actor, bandleader, and Desilu cofounder; Ricky Ricardo on I Love Lucy; pioneered the three-camera, film-based sitcom and reruns; won Emmys as producer, never as actor.