Usually means: Upland areas with acidic, sparse vegetation.
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  1. moorland: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. moorland: Merriam-Webster
  3. moorland: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. moorland: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. moorland: Collins English Dictionary
  6. moorland: Vocabulary.com
  7. Moorland, moorland: Wordnik
  8. moorland: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. moorland: Wiktionary
  10. moorland: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. moorland: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Moorland (HM Prison), Moorland (disambiguation), Moorland: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Moorland: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. moorland: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. moorland: Rhymezone
  16. Moorland (nt), Moorland: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. moorland: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. moorland: FreeDictionary.org
  19. moorland: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. moorland: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Moorland, moorland: Dictionary.com

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  1. moorland: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.

Similar:
moor, West Moor, Low Moor, rosland, Bodmin Moor, Goss Moor, Blea Moor, Moor Park, brook, holm, more...

Opposite:
lowland, plain, meadow, grassland

Types:
heathland, moor, more...

Phrases:
hinterland moorland, more...

Adjectives:
open, wild, high, bleak, dreary, rough, barren, desolate, bare, undulating, wide

Colors:
    heather,     moss green,     peat brown,     lavender,     sage, more...



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Similar:
moor, West Moor, Low Moor, rosland, Bodmin Moor, Goss Moor, Blea Moor, Moor Park, brook, holm, more...

Opposite:
lowland, plain, meadow, grassland

Types:
heathland, moor, more...

Phrases:
hinterland moorland, more...

Adjectives:
open, wild, high, bleak, dreary, rough, barren, desolate, bare, undulating, wide

Colors:
    heather,     moss green,     peat brown,     lavender,     sage, more...



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