A strip of land, esp. woodland. Later: a copse, a thicket.
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| 释义 | the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of (57) ripplelOE A strip of land, esp. woodland. Later: a copse, a thicket. wildwooda1122 A forest of natural growth, or allowed to grow naturally; an uncultivated or unfrequented wood. (In later use chiefly poetic.) rough1332 A piece or stretch of rough ground; spec. a steep bank or slope covered with undergrowth or trees (in later use chiefly regional, sometimes in the… firth?a1400 A synonym of frith, n.2 in some of its senses: A deer-forest, hunting-ground; a piece of ground covered with brushwood with a few trees; a… tod stripec1446 a strip of woodland in which foxes have their holes. osiard1509 Probably: a coppice of willows. Cf. osiery, n. bush1523 collectively. A clump of shrubs, a thicket; bushy ground. (Cf. bosk, n. 2) Obsolete except as reintroduced in sense 9. bush-ground1523 fritha1552 A piece of land grown sparsely with trees or with underwood only. Also, a space between woods; unused pasture land (see quots.). Now only dialect. island1638 transferred. An elevated piece of land surrounded by marsh or ‘intervale’ land; a piece of woodland surrounded by prairie or flat open country; a… oak landc1658 Land, or a tract of land, on which oak trees are prevalent. Also: soil suitable for oaks; land characterized by such soil. pinelandc1658 Land, esp. in the southern United States, on which pine trees are the characteristic growth; a tract of land covered in pine trees. Cf. pine barren… piney wood1666 A pinewood; an area covered with pine trees; spec. (in plural) tracts of infertile land in the southern United States on which pines are the… broom-land1707 land overgrown with broom. pine barrenc1721 An area of sandy or peaty land with a (usually thin) covering of pine trees. pine savannah1735 savannah in which pine trees predominate. savannah1735 North American. Originally: the open pine woodland of parts of the southern United States and Central America; = pine savannah n. at pine, n.2… thick woods1754 = strong wood strong woods n. at strong, adj. compounds 3. scrub-land1779 olive wood1783 Woodland or a wood consisting wholly or chiefly of olive trees. Now chiefly poetic. primeval forest1789 a very old or ancient forest, esp. one in a natural state, untouched by agriculture or industry. open wood1790 (a) North American a wood in which there is no undergrowth; (b) a wood in which the trees are not very close together; (Ecology) one in which the… strong woods1792 a region of thick afforestation; frequently attributive, esp. in the names of North American peoples. scrub1805 collective. Stunted trees or shrubs, brushwood; also, a tract of country overgrown with ‘scrub’. In Australian and New Zealand usage, any tract of… oak flata1816 (chiefly in plural) a level expanse of ground covered with oak trees. sertão1816 The name of an arid, barren region, characterized by caatinga, in the interior of Pernambuco and neighbouring states in NE Brazil; also applied… sprout-land1824 formerly cultivated land covered with young trees or shrubs. flatwoods1841 Low-lying timber land; applied especially to types of well-wooded land in Ohio, Alabama, and Florida. bush-land1842 tall timber1845 tall timber (North American), uninhabited forest. Usually in to break (strike,etc.) for (the) tall timber; also transferred, to run away, escape… amber forest1846 the prehistoric forest containing the trees from whose resin amber was formed. caatinga1846 In Brazil, a forest consisting of thorny shrubs and stunted trees. mahogany scrub1846 a tract thickly covered with ‘mahogany’ or jarrah trees. bush-flat1847 myall country1847 an area in which myall trees predominate; (also) a wild place inhabited by Aboriginal people living a traditional lifestyle. national forest1848 a forest managed by (an agency of) the national government; spec. (U.S.) a tract of forest set aside for conservation and public use (until 1907… selva1849 A tract of densely wooded country lying in the basin of the river Amazon. Usually plural. monte1851 In Spanish-speaking Central and South America, and the Spanish-influenced areas of the western United States: chaparral or scrub; an area of this… virgin forest1851 a forest of natural growth as yet untouched by man. bush-country1855 savannah forest1874 = savannah woodland n. bush-range1879 bushveld1879 Veld composed largely of bush; spec. (usually with capital initial) the wooded region of the South African provinces of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and… protection forest1889 a forest planted or managed in such a way as to provide a dense cover of vegetation, thus helping to inhibit erosion and conserve water. mulga1896 With the. Land covered with mulga trees; remote or sparsely populated land; the outback. wood-bush1896 name of a wooded region in South Africa. shinnery1901 An area of scrub in which shin-oak predominates. fringing forest1903 That fringes. fringing forest: see quot. 1926; fringing reef: see quot. 1878. monsoon forest1903 a deciduous forest found in regions of heavy seasonal rainfall. rainforest1903 Dense forest in an area of high rainfall that varies little with the seasons, esp. that in the tropics; (as a count noun) an area of this. savannah woodland1903 tropical or subtropical grassland similar to savannah but with a denser growth of trees, though not enough to give a continuous canopy. thorn forest1903 tropical rainforest1903 rainforest occurring within or close to the tropics; (as a count noun) an area of this. gallery forest1920 = fringing forest at fringing, adj. cloud forest1922 a forest almost constantly under clouds. rain jungle1945 = rainforest, n. mato1968 In Brazil: scrubland or forest; a forest. |
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