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Answer for the clue "Tree-covered area ", 8 letters:
woodland

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Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 3780 Housing Units (2000): 1482 Land area (2000): 2.505116 sq. miles (6.488221 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.097893 sq. miles (0.253542 sq. km) Total area (2000): 2.603009 sq. miles (6.741763 sq. km) FIPS code: 79625 Located within: Washington ...

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 ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Woodland is a historic home and farm located at St. Thomas Township in Franklin County, Pennsylvania . The original section was built about 1760, and is a -story, three-bay by two-bay, fieldstone dwelling with a gable roof. A three-bay by two-bay limestone ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to a creature or object growing, living, or existing in a woodland. 2 (context obsolete English) Having the character of a #Noun. n. land covered with woody vegetation.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. land that is covered with trees and shrubs [syn: forest , timberland , timber ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English wudulond ; see wood (n.) + land (n.). As an adjective from mid-14c.

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.