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Desolate area of land
Answer for the clue "Desolate area of land ", 9 letters:
moonscape
Alternative clues for the word moonscape
- View of Apollo astronaut, perhaps, reveals bottom and head
- Low partners pace around out-of-this-world scene
- Lunar terrain
- It's full of craters
- It's teeming with craters
- Backdrop in a famous 1969 broadcast
- Satellite picture of map once so distorted
- Crime-fighting accessory owned by rock drummer Keith?
Word definitions for moonscape in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Below the tower, clouds swirl across a grey moonscape lit from moment to moment by volcanic fires. ▪ In contrast to the life the researchers had witnessed during their descent, the view was now a barren moonscape . ▪ It would ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1926, from moon (n.) + scape (n.1).
Usage examples of moonscape.
He was three thousand kilometers above the surface, and it was a good feeling, watching the moonscape turn beneath him, watching Earth disappear beneath the horizon.
Rather, it was a lightning bolt blasting the moonscape, melting the regolith and its underlying rock, crushing the mantle, vaporizing everything within hundreds of kilometers of ground zero.
He sensed the sudden stillness in the passenger compartment, saw the moonscape break up beneath him, saw Alphonsus disappear into the ground.
Finally, finally, the lion turned away, a leisurely saunter of dignity and grace, conceding nothing, certainly not defeat, as he strolled through the open door to the moonscape beyond.
Jesse left, as he would leave this time, and from the Maui moonscape, the white lion at his side, he would turn his heart, his soul, back into stone.
But when she looked beyond the brilliant diamond and far above the magical sea, there the lions stood, on their moonscape, shimmering silver as moonbeams caressed their fleecy coats.
The ship soared above the small moonscape, leaving the approaching crowd gawping.
The Moonscape Center occupants had to spend hours in centrifuges each day to maintain calcium in their bones and muscle tone.
Workers at Moonscape were paid handsomely for their hazardous duty and rotated often.
We have, however been deeply concerned about the well being of our astronauts since we opened Moonscape and embarked on Destination Mars.
He spoke of the stages of sustainability: laboratories on Earth, settlements on Mars, Moonscape, the moons of Jupiter, near space orbit, solar orbit, and finally, deep space.
They stayed in contact with GanymedeSphere, Marscape, Moonscape, and many of the orbiting stations, but they heard nothing from Earth except from SpaceWorks and Orbital Command.
This whole sector of moonscape is going to be covered with blown out magma and gasses.
Fungal growths were blooming out of cracks in the concrete, moonscape mattresses of slime.
It was said that the Trader had trekked deep into the heart of the fiery southwest where hurricane-force winds howled across a moonscape where nothing grew, no man lived.