moorland
an area of moors, especially country abounding in heather.
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How to use moorland in a sentence
For some distance we ran through a rough moorland country, although the road was comparatively level and straight.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyOn our return from Helmsley, we noticed a byway leading across the moorland with a sign-board pointing the way "to Coxwold."
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyScrambling through some rough woods, he came out upon a moorland reaching towards the hills.
Tales and Fantasies | Robert Louis StevensonThere was no wild stretch of moorland here, no possibility of solitude.
Emily Bront | A. Mary F. (Agnes Mary Frances) RobinsonIt does not appear that the deep gloom which subsequently came over his soul oppressed him in his moorland retreat.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume XIII | John Lord
British Dictionary definitions for moorland
/ (ˈmʊələnd, ˈmɔː-) /
British an area of moor
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