" desertlike "

[Noun]  | "des*ert" | \ ˈde-zərt \

1: arid land with usually sparse vegetation; especially : such land having a very warm climate and receiving less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of sporadic rainfall annually

2: an area of water apparently devoid of life

3: a desolate or forbidding area

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English, "barren expanse of land (either wooded or arid), wasteland," borrowed from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin dēserta "unfrequented places, wilderness," noun derivative from neuter plural (feminine singular in Late Latin) of dēsertus "empty of people, uninhabited" {mat|desert:2|};

[Noun]  | "de*sert" | \ di-ˈzərt \

1: deserved reward or punishment —usually used in plural

2: the quality or fact of meriting reward or punishment

3: excellence, worth

Origin: 13th century ;

 Middle English desert, dissert "fact of deserving reward or punishment, worthiness, merit," borrowed from Anglo-French desert, deserte, desserte "merit, reward, fact of deserving reward or punishment, wrongful conduct, reason, cause" (also continental Old & Middle French), derivative of deservir "to deserve, merit, earn, be entitled to" {mat|deserve|};

  * Note : The derivation of Old French desert from deservir has been variously explained. Trésor de la Langue Française describes desserte as formed from the present tense base (i.e., the base lacking -v-) of desservir ("Déverbal, formé sur le radical du présent de l'indicative de desservir"). P. Ruelle points in a different direction, judging both the Old French noun deserte and the adjective desert as a variant of the past participle deservi, descending from *desérvitum, a presumed by-form of classical dēservītum (see: his "Notes sur le lexique des Isopets," Romania, vol. 101, no. 401 [1980], pp. 77-78).;

[Adjective]  | "desertlike" 

[Noun]  | "desert" 

[Noun]  | "desert"