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woodland

[wood-land, -luhnd, wood-luhnd] / ˈwʊdˌlænd, -lənd, ˈwʊd lənd /
NOUN
land covered with woods or trees
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NOUN
forest
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An area of wet woodland and marsh has been acquired alongside pastureland south of the River Sow.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2026

Before European settlement, the landscape around Cloggs Cave included riparian forest and open woodland containing many different plant species.

From Science Daily Sep. 15, 2026

Concerns have been raised over the impact of quad bike riders on wildlife in a woodland area near Muff, County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

In 1969, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum opened here, a long, low modernist building in a woodland park, housing a stellar collection of antiquities, and Islamic, Asian and European paintings, sculpture and decorative arts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

There was a kind of swamp here and it was hard to tell where water ended and woodland began.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Barth said replacing flammable pine forests with mixed woodlands would help.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

The disasters, coming at the peak of the summer vacation period when tourists flock to both countries, were fuelled by woodlands parched to tinder by successive heatwaves and lack of rain since May.

From Barron's Jul. 26, 2026

Red tape is making it "far easier" to cut woodlands down in Wales than to create new ones, a charity has warned.

From BBC Jun. 26, 2026

The newly recorded ancient woodland was the result of better digital mapping, the consideration of smaller woodlands and a new category for ancient pasture and parkland that did not exist previously, the wildlife trust explained.

From BBC Jun. 24, 2026

The first Europeans in Ohio found woodlands that resembled English parks—they could drive carriages through the trees.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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