moorland Definition
moor·land (-land′)
noun
Brit. moor
moorland Usage Examples
Converse of subject
surround: This charming Victorian house is surrounded by open moorland yet only a 5 minute walk to the village pub!
Converse of object
- undulate: Over to the north the scene is one of desolation, a world empty of anything except undulating moorland.
- expose: These areas range from stark exposed moorland and edges to rolling meadows accompanied by peaceful dales.
- surround: The ruins of stone pele towers are found in the surrounding moorland.
- cross: The 110 mile route crosses the moorland then follows the coast up to Filey.
Adjective modifier
- heather: Heather moorland covers about 40 % of the Park.
- bleak: We'd made such good time we pressed on just to get to " the Lion " high up on the bleak moorland.
- rugged: The terrain often features rugged, boggy moorland, or high mountains.
- unenclosed: The natural pattern is for woodland on the lower slopes, leading to fields and unenclosed moorland on the summit.
- boggy: The terrain often features rugged, boggy moorland, or high mountains.
- peaty: This leads down to Cabin Flat, an extensive area of peaty moorland.
Modifies a noun
- fringe: In Bowland, however, there has been very little loss except some conversion to grassland on the moorland fringe.
- plateau: Deep Dale The rough road drops very quickly off the moorland plateau into the head of a valley.
- catchment: Geostatistical prediction will then be used to map C stocks at a previously unachievable resolution for moorland catchments.
- vegetation: The Moors for the Future restoration work falls into three main areas: The establishment of moorland vegetation on bare peat damaged by fires.
- scenery: Starting at Helmsley, we travel over stunning moorland scenery for the first half of the route.
- pasture: Rough, unfenced sheep-grazed moorland pastures on upper slopes; stone wall enclosed pastures below.
Noun used with modifier
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