Badlands

//ˈbæd.lændz//

Synonyms for "badlands" (5 found)

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Noun(1 words)

Related words (2)

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Synonyms

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Related terms

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Translations

23 translations across 17 languages.

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Arabic

1 entries
  • وَعْر noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Asturian

2 entries
  • ermedá noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)
  • ermu noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Catalan

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  • badlands noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Danish

1 entries
  • badland noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • badlandoj noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Faroese

1 entries
  • illlendi noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

French

2 entries
  • Mauvaises Terres noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)
  • badlands noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

German

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  • Badlands noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Irish

1 entries
  • drochthailte noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Italian

1 entries
  • calanco noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Korean

1 entries
  • 악지 noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Leonese

1 entries
  • páramu noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Russian

1 entries
  • бедленд noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Sicilian

2 entries
  • malu passu noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)
  • sciara noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Spanish

4 entries
  • badlands noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)
  • malpaís noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)
  • tierras baldías noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)
  • tierras yermas noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Swedish

1 entries
  • badlands noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Welsh

1 entries
  • garwdiroedd noun (arid terrain with severely eroded sedimentary rocks)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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An almost perfectly preserved nodosaur fossil was discovered in the Albertan badlands.

Source: tatoeba (6074193)

During the season, interns, seasonal rangers, and park paleontologists walk all corners of the park to find fossils coming out of the badlands.

Source: tatoeba (6920799)

The sun and clouds create a shifting color palette on the badlands landscape.

Source: tatoeba (11476060)

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.

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