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moonscape

[moon-skeyp]
noun
  1. the general appearance of the surface of the moon.
  2. an artistic representation of it.
  3. a land area that resembles the surface of the moon, especially in barrenness and desolation.
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Origin of moonscape

First recorded in 1925–30; moon + -scape
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  • The sun rose, and baked the abomination of desolation which was the moonscape.

    Scrimshaw

    William Fitzgerald Jenkins

  • He looked at the sky, then swept his torch over the moonscape.

  • He saw the moonscape—the frozen lava sea with its layer of whitish-tan moondust.

    Operation: Outer Space

    William Fitzgerald Jenkins

British Dictionary definitions for moonscape

moonscape

noun
  1. the general surface of the moon or a representation of it
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Word Origin and History for moonscape

n.

1926, from moon (n.) + scape (n.).

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