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moorland

[ US /ˈmʊɹˌɫænd/ ]
[ UK /mˈɔːlənd/ ]
NOUN
  1. open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss

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  • After an hour this high ground offers a panoramic view of an unspoilt, uncharted, expanse of wild heath covered moorland stretching out in all directions as far as the eye can see.
  • The hikers start in tropical rainforest territory and travel through moorlands, alpine meadows and glaciers on the summit.
  • n. - kind of liliaceous plant; daffodil; Literature, flower of the Elysian fields. bog asphodel, British grass-like moorland plant. asportation Xml's Blinklist.com
  • 'The Bower,' far outbye on the moorland beside the Blackburn Lynn. Border Ghost Stories
  • It is a land of mountains, moorland and hill pasture, with steep river valleys and cliffs.
  • Game birds, such as grouse or pheasants, are better suited to rough moorland. Learn to Draw Countryside
  • After the hot summer days the mist sometimes hung over the moorland as if a whole lake were behind the old trees, among which the crows and the daws were fluttering.
  • Game birds are defined as wild in practice and under the law when, months before the start of the shooting season, they are able to independently move in and out of large release pens, usually situated in woodland or on farmland - not "moorland" as you stated. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
  • In the centre of the country, the alpine moorland and montane forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares conceal rare bongo antelope, red duiker, suni, bushbuck, Giant forest hog and colobus monkeys.
  • It bulks above long moorland valleys, its northern face hollowed and indented by some of the finest Welsh cwms. Country diary: Pumlumon
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