flinty landscape
- noun
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paisaje pedregoso
- Travelers often found the flinty landscape difficult to cross due to the sharp stones and uneven ground.
Examples
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The flinty landscape stretched for miles, with barely a tree in sight.
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She hiked across the flinty landscape, marveling at its forbidding beauty.
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Look at that flinty landscape!
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The flinty landscape stretched for miles.
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She hiked across the flinty landscape, marveling at its forbidding beauty.
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Travelers often found the flinty landscape difficult to cross due to the sharp stones and uneven ground.
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The flinty landscape stretched for miles, with barely a tree in sight.
Synonyms
A hillside area covered in loose stones or gravel
Antonyms
How Rugged
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently derived from 'flinty' (containing flint; notably hard) modifying 'landscape' (an expanse of land), so it denotes terrain characterized by flintiness, hardness, and stoniness. This simple adjective+noun compositional pattern is common and predictable across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily understand the phrase.
Etymology
Flinty landscape comes from the image of land covered in hard flint stones. The word flinty means 'full of flint', which is a hard, sharp stone, and landscape means the land you see, so imagining sharp rocks under your feet explains why the phrase means 'rough' and 'hard to cross'.