woodland
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2.6
- noun
- /ˈwʊdlənd/
- We're surrounded by 200 acres of woodland.
- woodland caribou
- woodland habitat
- patch of woodland
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- I don't really like gyms, so I'll go for long punishing runs in in woodland, hike up hills.
- I want to be freaking people out dressed as Chewbacca in woodland.
- And a lot of that I've heard is due to just the urbanization, the the reducing of forests and and Woodlands.
- This here, this here is the key to my new woodland.
Examples
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After walking through the beautiful woodland, we set up our picnic near a small stream.
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All around me was an ordinary Southern woodland, with bugs fiddling and clicking and so on.
Fiction book (2000) -
We're currently in my woodland setting up to camp tonight.
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I'll come back through the woodland and join you.
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The chaffinch, a common garden and woodland species, is one of them.
Academic text (1994) -
I'm particularly interested in woodland orchids.
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Then she gazed out at the woodlands on the other side of the creek.
Fiction book (1990) -
The province's forest-dwelling woodland caribou population is estimated to be roughly 5,000 animals.
Academic text (2012) -
The interior was rich in fertile grassland and bountiful woodland which teemed with all manner of plants and animals.
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The nonmigratory, forest-dwelling woodland caribou lives in the boreal forest year-round.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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1.0
A large area of land covered mostly with trees and bushes
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An area of land covered with many trees and low plants
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1.0
An area with many trees where people can walk
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3.7
Land covered with trees that can be used for wood
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5.1
Land covered with trees used to make wood
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3.8
A small area of land with trees often used to grow wood or shelter animals
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Land that has many trees or is kept to grow trees
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8.4
A remote forest area far from towns and roads
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.4
A large wild deer with antlers that lives in pine forests in parts of Canada
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A small plant that lives many years with clusters of white flowers whose petals spread wide
A hairy wild plant from Europe and Asia with deep yellow daisy-like flowers in open woods and rocky slopes
A small flowering plant with white fragrant flowers and purple veins that grows in shady eastern North American forests
How Wooded
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Woodland is made of wood and land, so it literally means 'land of woods'. That's why woodland refers to an area covered with trees and smaller plants, often smaller and more open than a dense forest.