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(British) a tract of level wasteland
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heathland
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tract of level wasteland; uncultivated land with sandy soil and scrubby vegetation [syn: heath ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A tract of scrubland habitats characterised by open, low growing woody vegetation, found on mainly infertile acidic soils. Similar to moorland but with warmer and drier climate.
Usage examples of heathland.
I knew that neither the woods nor the heathland would stop you and that even the wolves themselves would let you pass.
And I never said a word about plowed-up heathland and air pollution and housing developments on the hills.
A lofty ridge of heathland reveals itself dimly, terminating in an abrupt slope, at the summit of which are three tumuli.
Seeing the heathland of the New Forest stretching to the wooden horizon gave me that tingle.
As he stares across the heathland, memories of the previous evening steal into his mind.
On the ancient hornbeams and beeches, strangely twisted after centuries of pollarding, buds were showing spring green, and nesting ducks quacked from the heathland ponds.
A few sheep cropped at the rough heathland which stretched out on the side of the road from the sea.
Katla emerged from the twisting defile out into the heathland at the foot of the cliff, it was already too late.
As they rode, the land began to get less fertile and less, till at last there was but tillage here and there in patches: of houses there were but few, and the rest was but dark heathland and bog, with scraggy woods scattered about the country-side.
The girls were still in the coastal heathlands among scattered tall shrubs and low trees, having passed through the tall trees and open grasslands of the marri woodlands.
This drier, more northerly section of the heathlands, with its pure white and grey sandy soils, put the girls at a disadvantage.
The heathlands and salt marshes with their dykes and wicker fences slid along the port bows.
Finally the barges reached snowbound and windswept heathlands in which a few sheep-pens and juniper bushes projected themselves from sculpted snowdrifts like ruins.
They own heathlands, fields, valleys, there to breed pheasants, quail, and other innocent birds, all the better to slaughter them by twelve-bore shotguns.
A couple of days later, if you'll believe it, they rounded up another saddle-horse running loose, grazing up in the heathlands north of the town, still saddled.