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Badlands

//ˈbæd.lændz// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Badlands National Park, a national park in South Dakota.
Noun
  1. 1
    An arid terrain characterized by severe erosion of sedimentary rocks.

    "Not only do the Bad Lands present a most attractive field to the student of erosion and of the origin of earth forms, but their deathlike solitudes have been made to yield the most wonderful procession of strange extinct animals yet unearthed by geologists."

  2. 2
    deeply eroded barren land wordnet

Etymology

From earlier Bad Lands, calque of Canadian French mauvaises terres à traverser (“bad lands to cross”), itself a calque of Lakota Makȟóšiča (from makȟá (“land”) + o- (attributive prefix) + šíča (“bad”)).

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