Fertile Crescent


noun

an agricultural region extending from the Levant to Iraq.
an area in the Middle and Near East: formerly fertile, now partly desert.

British Dictionary definitions for fertile crescent

Fertile Crescent

noun

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