moorland

Other forms: moorlands

Definitions of moorland
  1. noun
    open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
    synonyms: moor
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    examples:
    Marston Moor
    a former moor in northern England
    type of:
    champaign, field, plain
    extensive tract of level open land
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