blackland
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- noun
- /ˈblækˌlænd/
- They discovered that the blackland was ideal for growing cotton due to its rich nutrients.
Examples
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In the region, many families rely on the blackland for farming vegetables and grains.
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There was not room for more than one grown son to remain on the family's small blackland farm.
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The territory of both contiguous counties is split into separate areas of hills and level blackland.
Academic text (1996) -
Yet even where they had the option to settle at higher elevations, they chose the more productive blackland.
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The Anglo-Americans settled in the hills, while the Czech-Moravian settlements are found on the blackland.
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Many of the Anglo-American families moved elsewhere, but the Moravians, who had acquired the fertile blackland outside of town, settled down for good.
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Yet more than any other circumstance, the availability of the fertile blackland determined the direction of settlement by Czechs and Moravians.
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Having emigrated from rocky, barren areas, they highly prized the Texas blackland, even though its flat topography little resembled their European homeland.
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THEY CAME FROM THE BLACKLANDS, AND ALSO FROM THE REDLANDS WHERE THE SPIRITS HAD FLED.
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Before the Second World War, most of this population was settled in a diamond-shaped expanse of blackland prairie that stretches between Houston, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, and Dallas.
Academic text (1996)
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Etymology
Blackland comes from black and land and means land that is 'black' because the soil is rich and dark. So, a blackland is an area of dark, fertile soil often used for farming.