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flatwoods

[flat-woo dz]
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noun (used with a plural verb)
  1. a woodland in a low-lying region having little drainage.
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Origin of flatwoods

1835–45, Americanism; flat1 + woods “forest”
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Examples from the Web for flatwoods

Historical Examples

  • Then the struggle begins, for the razorback loves its life, despised pig of the Florida flatwoods though it is.

    Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1899

    Various

  • I 'members a white fambly named Sims what lived in Flatwoods.