flatwoods

[ flat-woodz ]

noun(used with a plural verb)

a woodland in a low-lying region having little drainage.

Origin of flatwoods

¹

1835–45, Americanism;flat¹ + woods “forest”

Words Nearby flatwoods

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How to use flatwoods in a sentence

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
That one may be hopelessly lost in the deceptive flatwoods she dismissed with a laugh.
Diane of the Green Van | Leona Dalrymple

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