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