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So·no·ra

 (sə-nō′rə, sō-)
A state of northwest Mexico adjoining the Gulf of California. Hermosillo is the capital and largest city.

So·no′ran n. & adj.
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The book, and original folktale designed for older children, features the plants and animals of the Sonoran Desert as two desert-dwelling tricksters face off in a battle of wits over who gets dinner and who is dinner.
MINERAL-RICH HOT SPRINGS tucked deep in the wilderness, energy-emitting red rock spires in the Sonoran desert, and the salt air along the coast have long made the West a lodestar for seekers of spiritual and physical well-being.
Heiss, determined, took to social media to reach out to a Sonoran radio station, to find Dayami.
This is interesting because that was the scientific name proposed for the long-disputed "burro deer" of the Sonoran Desert.
Eat Mesquite and More: A Cookbook for Sonoran Desert Foods and Living is an inviting tribute to a region and its naturally delicious cuisine.
Octavio Rettig Hinojosa is a Mexican doctor who works with the sacred medicine 5-MeO-DMT found in the secretions of the Sonoran Desert Toad (Bufo Alvarius).
The Sonoran Desert toad (Incilius alvarius) is the largest native toad in the United States ([less than or equal to] 200 mm total length) and occurs near perennial and seasonal bodies of water across southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico (Brennan and Holycross, 2006; Rorabaugh and Lemos-Espinal, 2016).
Marilyn Hanson retired from teaching in 1999 and turned her energy into caring for her adopted home in Southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert.
Stryk's Sonoran Policy Group LLC owns Pyrenees Vineyard & Cellars outside Myrtle Creek, in Douglas County.
There's Victor Cornejo, perhaps America's best hat designer; Benjamin Galaz, the modern father of the Sonoran Hot Dog; Linda Camacho, one of the few Latinas in the publishing industry and Claudia Sandoval, who is following a family tradition of cooking while competing in Fox's SuperchefTV series.