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woodland

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Woodland is a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade. Woodlands may support an understory of shrubs and herbaceous plants including grasses . Woodland may form a transition to shrubland under drier conditions ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 319 Housing Units (2000): 135 Land area (2000): 0.449455 sq. miles (1.164082 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.449455 sq. miles (1.164082 sq. km) FIPS code: 83102 Located within: Illinois ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a woodland/wetland/grassland/marshland habitat (= a place in a wood, etc where animals and plants live or grow ) ▪ The owl inhabits woodland habitats from Scotland to southern Spain. dense forest/wood/woodland/jungle ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woodland \Wood"land\, n. Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are allowed to grow, either for fuel or timber. Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again. --Pope. Woodlands and cultivated ...

Usage examples of woodland.

Mai, they herded cattle on the grasslands and pigs in the patches of woodland that stood between the fields, and the young men of the tribe hunted boar and deer and aurochs and bear and wolf in the wild woods that had now been pressed back beyond the temples.

Such pathways as presented themselves in the woodland of Bordon Grove were no better than badger-runs.

For the truth was that in that golden age when the Witch and the Winter had gone and Peter the High King ruled at Cair Paravel, the smaller woodland people of Narnia were so safe and happy that they were getting a little careless.

That valley we must cross, it is not too deep, but there are woodlands and meadows where les Criards may lurk, probably a river to cross, and the terrain will be rougher than that of the Fungus Forest.

I have been down yonder, and have found a bright woodland pool, to wash the night off me, and if thou wilt do in likewise and come back to me, I will dight our breakfast meantime, and will we speedily to the road.

Dimwood was a series of interconnecting woodlands rather than a single forest such as the Edder or the Green Heart.

Majestic in their suggestion of spaciousness were those broad stretches of hedgeless, fenceless fields, their crop lines sharply drawn as are all lines from a plane, fields between the plots of woodland and the villages and towns, revealing a land where all the soil is tilled.

Farther up the rocky slopes, weeds and ornamental grassesripgut and woodland brome, foxtail fescue and ryegrass-had spread across the landscape in a golden haze that softened the stony ridges.

For there on the flat shore were pictures of Grecian lions and Mediterranean goats and maidens with flesh of sand like powdered gold and satyrs piping on hand-carved horns and children dancing, strewing flowers along and along the beach with lambs gambolling after and musicians skipping to their harps and lyres, and unicorns racing youths towards distant meadows, woodlands, ruined temples and volcanoes.

Reise brewed for his inn was bound with germander from the woodlands of the borough, not hops imported from Sandrakkan.

I saw Tek shudder at the mention of the goatlings inhabiting the vast woodlands not far from my cave.

The flight and pursuit, so harassing, so hot, Have drifted all combatants far from the spot: And through the sparse woodlands, and over the plain, Lie gorily scattered, the wounded and slain.

The disguise has served your purpose to-day, but it is too kenspeckle except in great woodlands.

A baleful sun rose early this morning over the municipally maintained woodland behind the Kursaal and must have shone down unheeding for quite a space on the ghastly blue contorted lips of a respected local resident.

The caravan came to an abrupt halt on the woodland road, a good fight livening up an overcast summer afternoon.