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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: land that is covered with trees and shrubs [syn: forest, woodland, timberland, timber]

Merriam Webster's

geographical name city W California NW of Sacramento population 49,151

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Date: before 12th century land covered with woody vegetation ; timberland, forest • woodlander noun II. adjective Date: 14th century 1. growing, living, or existing in woodland 2. of, relating to, or being woodland

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. wooded country, woods (often attrib.: woodland scenery). Derivatives: woodlander n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Woodland Wood"land, n. Land covered with wood or trees; forest; land on which trees are suffered to grow, either for fuel or timber. Here hills and vales, the woodland and the plain, Here earth and water seem to strive again. --Pope. Woodlands and cultivated fields are harmoniously blended. --Bancroft.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Woodland Wood"land, a. Of or pertaining to woods or woodland; living in the forest; sylvan. She had a rustic, woodland air. --Wordsworth. Like summer breeze by woodland stream. --Keble. Woodland caribou. (Zo["o]l.) See under Caribou.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(woodlands) Woodland is land with a lot of trees. N-VAR

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Woods, forest, grove, forest-land, timber-land.

Moby Thesaurus

acres, afforestation, afforestational, agricultural region, alluvion, alluvium, arable land, arboreous, arboretum, back, back of beyond, back-country, backwood, backwoods, backwoodsy, black belt, boondocks, bosky, braky, bush, bushveld, bushy, chase, citrus belt, clay, climax forest, clod, cloud forest, copsy, corn belt, cotton belt, countryside, crust, dendrologic, dendrology, dirt, dry land, dust, dust bowl, earth, farm belt, farm country, farmland, forest, forest land, forest preserve, forestal, forested, forestry, freehold, fringing forest, fruit belt, gallery forest, glebe, grass roots, grassland, grazing region, greenwood, ground, hanger, highlands, hinterland, index forest, jungle, jungles, land, landholdings, lithosphere, lowlands, marginal land, marl, meadows and pastures, mold, moors, national forest, outback, palmetto barrens, park, park forest, pine barrens, plains, prairies, primeval forest, protection forest, province, provinces, rain forest, real estate, real property, reforestation, reforestational, region, regolith, rural district, rustic region, scrub, scrubby, scrubland, selection forest, shrubby, shrubland, silvicultural, silviculture, sod, soil, sprout forest, stand of timber, state forest, steppes, subaerial deposit, subsoil, sylvan, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, the soil, the sticks, timber, timbered, timberland, tobacco belt, topsoil, tree veld, up-country, uplands, veld, virgin, virgin forest, waste, weald, wheat belt, wide-open spaces, wild, wilderness, wildwood, wood, wooded, woods, woods and fields, woodsy, woody, yokeldom