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parkland|ˈpɑːklænd|
[park n. 7.]
1. An area of grassland scattered with occasional clumps of trees. Also attrib.
1907H. A. Kennedy New Canada 182 Very soon the parklands of the north were all behind us. 1909E. Warming Oecol. Plants lxxxix. 325 We may cite the ‘park-lands’ of eastern Asia, where grassland has become occupied by trees and shrubs. 1920H. G. Wells Outl. Hist. 84/2 They were forest and parkland peoples without horses. Ibid. 267/2 A slow change in climate..was replacing the swamps and forests and parklands of South Russia..by steppes. 1926Tansley & Chipp Study of Vegetation x. 209 Parkland..aptly describes the great stretches of country which in Africa almost completely surround the Closed Forest... The characteristic feature of the Parkland is grass, interspersed with trees. 1948A. L. Rand Mammals E. Rockies 110 The parklands of central Alberta. 1953Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. XLVI. 240/1 This fact would seem to urge caution in the extension of irrigation northward into the parkland belt. 1960N. Polunin Introd. Plant Geogr. xiv. 441 Savanna-woodlands or ‘parklands’ are often found where the rainless period is more prolonged and the annual rainfall less heavy than in true closed forest. 1968R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 3 It [sc. a relief map] has been carefully painted with the varying greens and yellows that indicate the different kinds of forest, parkland and tundra.
2. Land given over to the cultivation of a park or parks (park n. 1 b).
1937Proc. Prehist. Soc. III. 73 The edges of the barrow are turfed and merge into undisturbed parkland. 1952Antiquity XXVI. 161 The houses of Stowe or Wimpole or Castle Howard were being absorbed into their parklands. 1954M. Beresford Lost Villages i. 28 The parkland..was both attractive to the eye and useful to the pocket. 1959Geogr. Rev. XLIX. 28 A thousand acres of parkland was deliberately left unaltered. 1977Times 26 Nov. 28/5 (Advt.), Enjoy a weekend in the country at a beautiful Georgian Rectory in 26 acres of parkland.
3. Canad.
a. A parcel of land required by law to be set aside for public recreation and wildlife conservation.
1957Financial Post (Toronto) 29 June 23/3 Every major Canadian city knows it should be providing 10 acres of parkland for every 1,000 people. 1977Little Cataraqui Environment Assoc. Newsletter Nov. 1 The [conservation] authority will maintain this land as a natural parkland, paying both taxes to the city and maintenance costs.
b. A national or provincial park.
1958Maclean's Mag. 10 May 8/1 We do, of course, sometimes set aside tracts of country for recreation and so forth—and we say these are in perpetuity; but this phrase only seems to mean until the parkland is needed for logging, or mining. 1971Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 21 Aug. 9/2 Quebec..now has an accelerated program attending to some 25,000 square miles of developed and partially developed parkland. |