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badlands
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plural noun
any section of barren land where rapid erosion has cut the loose, dry soil or soft rocks into strange shapes, as in various places in the W U.S.
barren plateau in SW South Dakota east of the Black Hills; marked by dramatically eroded hills and containing many fossil deposits
See badlands in American Heritage Dictionary 4
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