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woodland

UK/ˈwʊd.lənd/US/ˈwʊd.lənd/
nounB1+Common in everyday speech and writing · #7,953 of 15,258mostly written

Other forms: woodlands

Woodland is land covered with trees, smaller than a forest. Ancient woodland, walk in the woodland, woodland flowers.

In Britain ancient woodland means continuously wooded since 1600, and it cannot be replaced — the soil and the plant communities take centuries to build, which is why replanting elsewhere does not make up for clearing it. Bluebells are one of its markers.

Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0

Definitions of woodland

  1. 1nounwoodlandLand covered with trees.B1+

    “We followed a narrow path through the woodland, where squirrels ran between the trees.”

woodland is a landscape.

Where it comes from

Old English wuduland is wudu, wood, plus land. The compound has kept its meaning unchanged.

  1. Old English

    wuduland — woodland; forestland; forest

  2. Middle English

    wodeland

  3. English, today

    woodland

From Middle English wodeland, wodelond, from Old English wuduland (“woodland; forestland; forest”), equivalent to wood + land. Compare West Frisian wâldlân, Dutch bosland, German Waldland, Icelandic skóglendi. Eclipsed non-native salt, borrowed from saltus.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Nature & Weather

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woodland in the wild

  • For example, the woodlands of Northwest Indiana have been preserved as part of the Indiana Dunes.

    Woodland

  • Typically a coppiced woodland is harvested in sections or coups on a rotation.

    Coppicing

  • In this way, a crop is available each year somewhere in the woodland.

    Coppicing

  • The Woodland Trust is the largest woodland conservation charity in the United Kingdom and is concerned with the creation, protection, and restoration of native woodland heritage.

    Woodland Trust

  • The charity maintains ownership of over 1,000 sites covering over 33,000 hectares of which 8,070ha is ancient woodland.

    Woodland Trust

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.