heathland
Americannoun
plural
heathlandsOther Word Forms
- heathlander noun
Example Sentences
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The Winnie-the-Pooh stories are set in Ashdown Forest, an area of open heathland on the highest sandy ridges of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2025
The species depends on just one plant, Devil's-bit Scabious, which grows across a range of grassland and heathland sites, most often grazed by cattle.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025
The species survival fund will also support a partnership of schools, farmers, and landowners across the mid-Cornwall moors area to restore woodland and heathland, as well as species-rich acidic grasslands.
From BBC • Mar. 14, 2024
The textbook narrative is that our ancestors felled the forests, drained the swamps and cultivated the heathland.
From Science Daily • Nov. 14, 2023
Beyond it were slopes covered with sombre trees like dark clouds, but all about them lay a tumbled heathland, grown with ling and broom and cornel, and other shrubs that they did not know.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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