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Moorland

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A locality in the MidCoast council area, eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken. countable, uncountable

    "The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed."

  2. 2
    open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English morelond, equivalent to moor + land. Compare Old Norse mýrlendi (“moorland”).

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