scablands
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Land that is flat and high with poor soil and few plants cut by dry flood channels
- noun
- /ˈskæbˌlændz/
- Specialized
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tierra árida
- After the glacier melted, the scablands emerged, revealing dry channels and sparse vegetation.
Have have you seen the the northwestern scablands of the United States?
- Have have you seen the the northwestern scablands of the United States?
Examples
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Have have you seen the the northwestern scablands of the United States?
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Sorry, it's with AU in it, but it's yeah, it's the channel Scablands and it's it's basically the out wash of this water, this tremendous floods.
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The road through the eastern Washington scablands offers breathtaking views of the unique landscape.
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Farmers struggle to grow crops in the scablands due to the poor soil and harsh conditions.
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Etymology
Scablands comes from scab meaning 'a crust or sore' and land meaning ground. The name imagines land that looks like a scab—rough, bare, and full of dry channels—so scablands describes high, rocky ground with poor soil formed by huge ice age floods.