flatwoods

[flat-woo dz]

noun (used with a plural verb)

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

Origin of flatwoods

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

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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
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I 'members a white fambly named Sims what lived in Flatwoods.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States
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